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4 April 1961
Building Types Study: Schools
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Art us Science in Education by Richard L. Davies
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Cover:
Detail, Kagawa Prefecture Hall at Takamatsu, Japan.
Kenzo Tange, architect
Advertising Index 334
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Architects and Buildings
AECK ASSOCIATES. The Lovett School, Atlanta 52187
BEGROW & BROWN. City and Country School, Bloomfield Hills,
Mich. ......176
DAVERMAN, J & G, COMPANY. Kettle Moraine School for
Boys, Plymouth, Wis. ........170
FEHR & GRANGER. Austin State School, Austin, Texas -180
FEHR & GRANGER AND NIGGLI & GUSTAFSON. Texas State
School for the Deaf, Austin ........ 178
HELLIMUTH, OBATA & KASSABAUM. St. Thomas Aquinas
High School, Florissant, Mo. ........184
KINNEY, A.M., ASSOCIATES-CHARLES BURCHARD, AR-
CHITECT. Wesley Child Care Center, Cincinnati. .113
SALMON & SALMON. The Woods Schools Child Study Treat-
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'ch Center, Langhorne, Pa. ........ 182
SEIBERT, EDWARD J. Frank S. Godfrey House, Sarasota,
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SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL. With Wilson, Morris, Crain
& Anderson, consulting architects; The First National City
Bank, Houston .. » +155
WARNECKE, JOHN CARL, & ASSOCIATES. Book Store and
Post Office, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif, ......145
WILSON, MORRIS, CRAIN & ANDERSON. Parking Garage,
The First National City Bank, Houston ........ 164
WILSON, MORRIS, CRAIN & ANDERSON. Аз consulting
architects; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, architects: The First
National City Bank, Houston
Authors and Articles
BURCHARD, JOHN ELY. “New Currents in Japanese Archi-
Lecture" .,.7.. 129
DAVIES, RICHARD LLEWELYN. "Art vs, Science їп Educa-
tonta or. 149
FOEHL, JOHN M. “What Architects Want to Know About
Bronze," Part.2 4... us 206
ROOF-MOUNTED HEAT PUMPS SOLVE MULTI-ZONE
PROBLEM ........ 196
SELECTING FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT ........203
Features
NEW CURRENTS IN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE 129 John Ely Burchard reports
on contemporary architecture and architects in Japan
EMPATHY WITHOUT ECLECTICISM 145 Stanford's new post office and book store give a strictly contemporary
salute to their beautiful old neighbors
ART VS. SCIENCE IN EDUCATION? 149 Never were there better opportunities for architects, but we must
quit resisting science, and our education must be patterned accordingly
TRIPARTITE SCHEME FOR BANK, OFFICE BUILDING, AND GARAGE 155 SOM's unusual solution for a
demanding set of requirements
FIVE ZONE HOUSE WITH MUCH STYLE FOR $26,000 765 Many current design problems are solved
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Building Types Study 293: Special Schools
1. SOCIAL REHABILITATION OF DELINQUENT BOYS 170 Wisconsin correctional institution
for overall correction of juvenile delinquents
2. DAY CARE FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN 173 Activity center for pre-school
and elementary school children of working mothers
3. INDIVIDUALIZED TEACHING FOR GIFTED CHILDREN 176 Michigan private school for children with
high IQs or unusual talents
4. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH HEARING DEFECTS 178 ‘Texas state school with facilities for training
children with communication problems
5. TRAINING FACILITY FOR MENTALLY RETARDED 180 State institution for physically active,
but severely retarded, young children
6. EDUCATION FOR MULTIPLE-HANDICAPPED CHILDREN 182 Private center in Pennsylvania
for diagnosis, treatment, and training
7. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL AND CONVENT 184 Missouri denominational school with special facilities for
the students and the nuns who train them
8. PROTESTANT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL 187 Atlanta denominational school completes
units of master plan, on a limited budget
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with the type, Louis G. Redstone of Detroit.
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“Unity
in Diversity”
The Piazza San Marco, “this arch ex-
ample of perfection,” said the good
doctor in winding up an address (it
brought the audience to its feet), “is
an ideal illustration of my credo,
‘unity in diversity'."
The doctor is of course Walter
Gropius, and the occasion was the
first of the Four Great Makers con-
vocations in progress at Columbia’s
School of Architecture. Whether
such unity and order could be
achieved in our time, and how we
might undertake it, had occupied the
doctor in what had the sound of a
valedictory. He closed with a vision
of architectural collaboration which
he promised was not easy but which
he considered necessary if we are to
find any organic order in our present
chaotic scramble.
The problem: “. . . confusion and
chaos. It seems that the inherent
tendencies of an architecture of the
twentieth century as they were born
fifty years or so ago and appeared
then as a deeply felt, indivisible en-
tity to their initiators, have been ex-
ploded into so many fractions that it
becomes difficult to draw them to-
gether to coherence again. Technical
innovations, first greeted as delight-
ful new means-to-an-end, were seized
separately and set against each other
as ends in themselves ; personal meth-
ods of approach were hardened into
hostile dogmas; a new awareness of
our relationship to the past was dis-
torted into a revivalist spirit; our
financial affluence was mistaken for a
free ticket into social irresponsibil-
ity and art-for-art's-sake mentality ;
our young people felt bewildered
rather than inspired by the wealth
of means at their disposal. They were
either trying to head for safe corners
with limited objectives or suecumb-
ing to a frivolous application of
changing patterns of ‘styling’ or
*mood' architecture. In short, we are
supposed to have lost direction, con-
fidence, reverence; and everything
goes."
The collaborative approach: “. . .
I have tried, since a long time, there-
fore, to give more incentive to such
а state of mind by developing a spir-
it of voluntary teamwork among
groups of architects. But my idea has
become almost suspect since so many
of my colleagues are still wedded to
Behind the Record
the 19th century idea that individual
genius can only work in splendid iso-
lation. Just as our profession 50
years ago closed their eyes to the fact
that the machine had irrefutably en-
tered the building process, so now it
is trying to cling to the conception of
the architect as a self-sufficient, in-
dependent operator, who, with the
help of a good staff and competent
engineers can solve any problem, and
keep his artistic integrity intact.
This, in my view, is an isolationist at-
titude which will be unable to stem
the tide of uncontrolled disorder en-
gulfing our living spaces. It runs
counter to the concept of Total Ar-
chitecture which is concerned with
the whole of our environmental de-
velopment and demands collabora-
tion on the broadest basis. Our pres-
ent casual way of solving problems
of collaboration on large projects is
simply to throw a few prominent ar-
chitects together in the hope that
five people will automatically produce
more beauty than one. The result, as
often as not, becomes an unrelated
assemblage of individual architec-
tural ideas, not an integrated whole
of new and enriched value. It is ob-
vious that we have to learn new and
better ways of collaboration.
“In my experience these call first
of all for an unprejudiced state of
mind and for the firm belief that
common thought and action is а pre-
condition for cultural growth. Start-
ing on this basis, we must strive to
acquire the methods, the vocabulary,
the habits of collaboration with
which most architects are unfamiliar.
This is not easy to accomplish. It is
one thing to condition an individual
for cooperation by making him con-
form; it is another, altogether, to
make him keep his identity within a
group of equals while he is trying to
find common ground with them. It
is imperative, though, that we de-
velop such a technique of collabora-
tion to a high degree of refinement
since it is our guaranty for the pro-
tection of the individual against be-
coming a mere number and, at the
same time, for the development of re-
lated expression rather than of pre-
tentious individualism.”
Thus the image of the architect,
by one of our greatest living practi-
tioners. Emerson Goble
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 9
Letters
WANTED: MORE ON ANALYSIS
In your May 1959 issue, which I
have just seen, you published an ar-
ticle entitled "Architectural Analy-
sis—Prelude" by Mr. William М.
Pena and Mr. William W. Caudill.
I found this article an excellent one,
and I feel that architectural maga-
zines generally do not give enough
space to the subject of architectural
analysis.
As well as being extremely inter-
esting to practising architects, arti-
cles of this nature are particularly
valuable to architectural students
and lecturers in architecture.
I feel that the prestige of your
magazine would be further enhanced
if you would publish more articles
in this vein. A series of articles giv-
ing a complete synopsis of architec-
tural analysis would be very well re-
ceived.
Norman G. Lehey
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Technical College, Kuala Lumpur,
Federation of Malaya
EDUCATING CLIENTS
I found your article entitled College
Buildings in the November issue ex-
tremely interesting; in fact so in-
formative that I would like to get
some reprints of the article in order
to send them to some college people
with whom I work, and have worked.
I have served as Consulting Archi-
tect for the University of Texas,
Southern Methodist University, and
for Hendrix College at Conway, Ar-
kansas, and I believe that the Presi-
dents of these institutions, together
with the Regents and Building Com-
mittees, would find the article inval-
uable to them.
Mr. Saarinen has brought out a
number of points which this office
has advocated, for which we were
sometimes criticized severely, even by
the local press. In any event, it is a
sound article by a man who evidently
has had experience in this field and
has encountered some of the prob-
lems that we have encountered.
If there are no reprints we will
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want to order some additional copies
of this November issue, if there are
any available. An early reply to this
letter will be appreciated.
Mark Lemmon, Architect
Dallas
RECORD HOUSES AWARDS
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sent to the architects and owners of
houses selected for inclusion in the
RECORD’s annual mid-May issue, REC-
ORD HOUSES, from its inception in
1956 till now. Following are excerpts
from acknowledgements received.
Many thanks for having forwarded
the certificates of award for RECORD
HOUSES. One should also say that it is
also due to the efforts of magazines
such as yourselves that good archi-
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ble to encourage the best, by careful
and astute choice of what is to be
shown.
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Houston 6, Texas
Thank you very much for your letter
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certificates from RECORD HOUSES.
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cellent idea and one that promotes
good relations not only with the ar-
chitects, but with his clients. RECORD
HOUSES is to be congratulated for its
continued leadership in quality.
P. M. Bolton
Houston, Texas
Your certification of award for my
residence which was published in the
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD in 1956 was
appreciated very much. I am keen-
ly aware of the contribution that
your magazine is making to the ar-
chitectural profession, and am hap-
py to have had a small part as a con-
tributor.
Truett H. Coston
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
I wish to thank you for the hand-
some sheepskin in recognition of our
RECORD HOUSE.
Best wishes to you and the Record.
Harry Weese
Chicago, Illinois
Thank you for your nice note about
your award to us on the Barron
house. I appreciate both your note
and the award.
Minoru Yamasaki
Birmingham, Michigan
I was agreeably surprised to receive
the ARCHITECTURAL RECORD award
for my house in Cambridge. I want
to thank you and the ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD for this distinction.
Jose Luis Sert
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thank you very much for sending
Rufus Nims and my retroactive Re-
cord awards. We have always been
very proud of having had our work
selected by you, and—however im-
modestly—we have greedily coveted
the certificates of award which you
at last sent. I'm sure the other ar-
chitects receiving them feel the same
way.
There is one problem however
which grows from the pride Rufus
and I both have in these awards—
and that is how to share the single
copy of our joint awards, one for the
Miller house and one for the Ratner
house, which we did together, since
we have separate offices. Could you
possibly rescue us from our dilemma
and send us a duplicate for these?
We'd be most grateful.
Robert B. Browne
Miami, Florida
Many thanks for the certificates
which you have sent us. We are very
much pleased to have them and I
have forwarded to the house owners
the ones which were indicated for
their trophy rooms.
Eliot Noyes
New Canaan, Connecticut
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Houston, Texas. This building has window heads, spandrels and aprons of finely corrugated 24-ounce
copper, and copings of plain copper. The copper will be naturally weathered to its pastel blue-green patina. Architect: Wilson, Morris, Crain &
Anderson, Houston. General Contractor: Baxter Construction Company, Inc., Houston. Sheet Metal Contractor: A. М. Bowles Company, Houston.
ANACONDA METALS FOR CURTAIN-WALL CONSTRUCTION
Northeastern Pennsylvania National Bank and Trust Co.,
Scranton, Pennsylvania. The bronze front of this building char-
acterizes modern design employing extruded shapes of Archi-
tectural Bronze and sheets of heavy-gage Muntz Metal. The
two materials are combined with glass to provide the enduring
beauty and feeling of stability so important in banking insti-
tutions. All of the bronze was treated to produce a statuary
bronze finish. Architect: George M. D. Lewis, Scranton. Fabri-
cator: Standard Iron Works, Scranton.
No other architectural metals possess the versatility and enduring
beauty of copper and its alloys—or lend themselves so readily to
forming, fabricating and variable finishing to portray concepts of archi-
tectural design. Metals readily adaptable to curtain-wall construction
include Copper, Red Brass, Architectural Bronze, Muntz Metal, Nickel
Silver and Everdur® (copper-silicon alloy).
One of the great virtues of copper and its family of alloys is that they
will weather naturally to a beautiful patina. Or chemical treatment
will produce a color effect which rivals the beauty of weathered cop-
per or bronze.
Illustrated here are two examples of curtain-wall design employing
different materials and forms. Details of these and other curtain-wall
designs are given in our new publication, “Architectural Metals by
Anaconda.” Its 64 pages also give practical and detailed information on
the metals, their compositions, colors, forms, physical properties, archi-
tectural applications, instructions for obtaining various finishes, de-
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 11
ia AURA ЧАСА
JIedrich-Blessing
MURPHY & MACKEY WIN 1961 REYNOLDS AWARD
For the first time since its inception five years ago,
the $25,000 R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award, the
largest annual international award for architec-
tural excellence, has been conferred on an American
architectural firm. Previous awards having gone to
architects in Spain, Belgium, Australia and Switz-
erland, this year's winner is the St. Louis firm of
Murphy and Mackey. The two partners, Joseph D.
Murphy, F.A.LA., and Eugene J. Mackey, A.I.A.,
were honored for their design of the Climatron, a
display greenhouse in the Missouri Botanical Gar-
den in St. Louis.
Working from garden director Dr. Frits Went's
concept requiring a dramatic public botanical show-
case with closely controlled and varied climatic con-
ditions for research, the architects designed the 175-
ft-diameter, 70-ft high Climatron, an aluminum
and plexiglass geodesic dome based on the princi-
ples of R. Buckminster Fuller. Its precise climate
control suggesting its name, the Climatron’s dis-
plays form four areas, each with its own simulated
geographic setting—representing the climate and .
vegetation of Hawaii, India, Java and the Amazon
area. A special air conditioning system permits the
varying “climates” without physical compartmenta-
12 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
tion of the four climate areas.
According to the jury, unanimous in its selection
of the winning design, the dome is “sensitively exe-
cuted and strikingly appropriate to its purpose . . .
The tropical lyricism of the botanical displays seems
so successfully carried out by the architects that it
must be a marvelous experience for the visitor to
enter this great space.”
Jury members were: Minoru Yamasaki, F.A.I.A.;
Paul Thiry, F.A.I.A.; Hugh A. Stubbins Jr., Е.А Т.А. ;
Henrique R. Mindlin, F.A.I.A.; Samuel T. Hurst,
АТА.
The recipients of the 1961 award for “a signifi-
сапї work of architecture in the creation of which
aluminum has been an important contributing fac-
tor” are both graduates of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and former professors of architecture
at Washington University, St. Louis. Mr. Murphy
and Mr. Mackey were also past presidents of the
St. Louis A.LA. chapter.
Collaborators on the project were Paul Londe,
mechanical engineer, and James Fitzgibbon, struc-
tural consultant. North American Aviation, Inc.
fabricated and erected the structure; C. Rallo Con-
tracting Company, Inc. built the foundation.
Buildings in the News
REYNOLDS AWARDS FIRST
$5000 STUDENT PRIZE
The first annual $5000 Reynolds Aluminum
Prize for Architectural Students has been
won by John L. Dewey, fifth year student at
the University of Cincinnati. The award for
"the best original design of а building com-
ponent in aluminum" will be presented dur-
ing the April A.I.A. convention in Philadel-
phia. The prize will be divided equally be-
tween the University and Mr. Dewey.
à; Below is a photo of the model of the win-
The jury for the 1961 Reynolds Memorial Award -— ning design, a “Component Structure of
the nominated structures at А Т.А. headquarters, Wash- ; S i а X
aun D Latte rift are Жый А. Sabin de RM qoum ie
jury chairman Minoru Yamasaki, Henrique E. Mindlin, " Б , ,
Samuel Т. Hurst and Paul Thiry information booths or bus stop shelters. De-
signed to be fast and easy to assemble, the
structure is poised on a minimum number of
integral columns. Four five-ft truss panels
are joined to a column to form a structural
"tree", which combine in rectangular or ir-
regular shapes to develop the desired struc-
ture. Aluminum roof panels and plastic sky-
lights attach to the frame.
Judging the submissions from 32 schools
were: George Matsumoto, A.I.A.; George Е.
Pierce Jr., A.L.A.; Thomas J. Biggs, A.LA.
The jury singled out as “runner-up” de-
signs those by Wolfgang Jabs, Stanford
University, and Richard B. Norman, Uni-
versity of Michigan. A design by Anthony S.
Predock, University of New Mexico, was
awarded an honorable mention.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 18
1. First Prize: Joseph W. Molitor, photographer. Sarasota High
School, Sarasota, Fla. Architect, Paul Rudolph
2. Second Prize: George Knight, photographer. John Hancock
Building, San Francisco, Calif. Architect, Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill
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3. Third Prize: David Hirsch, photographer. Pan American Ter-
minal Building, Long Island, N.Y. Architect, Tippets-Abbett-
McCarthy-Stratton; Ives, Turano & Gardner, Assoc. Arch. & Engr.
A.LA.-A.P.A. ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
In the fourth competition sponsored by the Archi-
tectural Photographers' Association and the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, six photographs were
selected as winners. They are shown here—those in
the black and white category above; those in the
color category below. (This is the first year color
photography was invited.)
On the jury were Robert Lautman, member of
the A.P.A.; John H. Kyle, editor, John Hopkins
Press; and Charles M. Goodman, F.A.I.A.
An exhibition “to recognize and encourage out-
standing work in architectural photography .. ." is
being circulated nationally by the Traveling Exhibi-
tion Service of the Smithsonian Institution.
4. First Prize: Julius Shulman, photographer. Case Study House No. 22
for the magazine Arts & Architecture. Architect, Pierre Koenig
5. Second Prize: Baltazar Korab, photographer. Reynolds Metal Building,
Great Lakes Headquarters, Detroit. Architect, M. Yamasaki & Associates
6. Third Prize: Lawrence S. Williams, photographer. Christ Chapel at
Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. Architect, Vincent G. Kling
NEW JERSEY
NAMES FOUR WINNERS
IN WORLD’S FAIR
COMPETITION
The first of a two-stage competition for the
design of New Jersey’s two-acre site of the
1964-65 World’s Fair, a focal point for the
celebration of New Jersey’s 300th anniver-
sary, was completed in February. Prepara-
tion time for stage one was from January
3 to February 2.
Four winners and five honorable men-
tions were chosen from 115 New Jersey ar-
chitects’ entries by a jury consisting of
Robert S. Hutchins, F.A.I.A.; Percival
Goodman, F.A.LA.; and Robert W. Mc-
Laughlin, Director of Princeton Universi-
ty's School of Architecture. Professional
advisor is Professor Sherley W. Morgan,
F.A.I.A., Director Emeritus of Princeton’s
School of Architecture.
The four winning designs are shown on
this page. On the basis of a new program,
the four architects will develop final draw-
ings for the state's exhibit. Each will be
given $1000. The eventual winner will be
the architect for the building at the Fair.
Honorable mentions were won by Martin
L. Beck, of Princeton, in collaboration with
J. Max Bond Jr.; Anthony V. Genovese,
Ridgewood, with Herbert F. Maddalene,
Paramus; John MeMaster, Fair Lawn;
Robert T. Dutter, Newark; Alfred Clauss
and William C. Cranmer, Trenton, with as-
sociate designer Treat Arnold.
Buildings in the News
Bernard J. Grad, general partner
Harry B. Mahler, associate and chief designer
Howard N. Horii, designer
Mikio Kawakami, designer
Frank Grad & Sons, Newark, N.J.
John R. Diehl, Princeton, N.J.
Philip Sheridan Collins, Princeton, N.J.
George E. McDowell, Montclair, N.J.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 15
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17
Construction Cost Indexes
Presented by Clyde Shute, Director of Statistical Policy, Construction News Div., F. W. Dodge Corp., from data compiled by E. H. Boeckh & Assoc. Inc.
Labor and Materials: U.S. average 1926-1929—100
NEW YORK
ATLANTA
APTS., HOTELS, COMMERCIAL AND APTS., HOTELS, | COMMERCIAL AND
RESIDENTIAL OFFICE BLDGS. | FACTORY BLDGS. RESIDENTIAL OFFICE. BLDGS. | FACTORY BLDGS.
Brick Brick Brick Brick Brick Brick
and and and and and and
PERIOD Brick Frame Concrete Concrete Steel Brick Frame Concrete Concrete Steel
1930 127.0 1267 124.1 128.0 i236 | 821 soo | 845 [eel 836
1935 93.8 91.3 104.7 108.5 10550 172% — TOD |-- 840 | EY ^. 851
1939 123.5 122.4 130.7 133.4 BOT ll 2060. 831 | . 951 | 974 947
1949 2437 2408 | 2428 | 2466 2400 | 1893 1899 | 1806 | 1808 175
1950 256.2 254.5 249.5 251.5 2480 | 1943 1962 | 1854 | 1837 1850 7
1951 273.2 271.3 263.7 274.9 271.8 212.8 214.6 204.2 202.8 205.0
1952 278.2 2748 | 2719 | 2652 2622 | 2188 2210 | 2128 | 2101 2143
7C. 15 | a3 292 | 281.0 ^ 2860 2820 | 2230 2246 | 2213 | 2218 2230
|... 1954 | 2850 2782 | 2930 | 3006 2954 | 2196 219.1 | 2335 | 2252 2254
| 1955 | 293! 2860 300.0 308.3 3024" | 22558 01 251 | 22790 133] 2305-7 2118
p 17l IO ^ 022."| GG ONT 78286 ^ 32145 |< 2372 28877] X 924377 ‚1 | 2444; — — 12484
| . 957 | «3185: 7 30830] 73331. |2452 398 | "241274 ^ 72390 ^| 2487 | 2523] — 72547
| 1958 | 3280 3151 | 3486 | 3654 3573 | 2439 239.8 | 2557 | 261.9 262.0
|- . 19589. раа. е SASON 53627 2*7| 8868... 38743. | 72322. 2: 277 |3 7 2683 r- |2727. — 807835
Е "esq?" OW esq 1 BT. 3777 395.8 S806), |, 2592 25533 | _ 2747 |2825 2788
| Nov. 1960 | 3540 3389 | 381.0 | 399.5 3513 | "2598 o 2529 | "2786 €3 | 2852 : 2789.
| Dec 1960 | 3540 3389 | 3810 | 399.5 3813 | 2558 2529 | 2766 | 285.2 4179
I an;1981 | + 3572) 34Y3. | 3858 | Е | 2591 2520 | "2355 -* | 28529 ^ 2788.
96 increase over 1939 96 increase over 1939
Jan. 1961 189.2 178.8 | 195.2 | 204.6 196.0 200.2 203.2 | 190.7 | 192.8 194.4
ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO
96 increase over 1939
| 1747 |
% increase over 1939
187.0
191.4
Cost comparisons, as percentage
differences, for any particular type of
construction, are possible between
localities, or periods of time within
the same city, by dividing the dif-
ference between the two index num-
bers by one of them; i.e.:
index for city A = 110
index for city B= 95
(both indexes must be for the same
type of construction).
Then: costs in A are approximately
16 per cent higher than in B.
110—95
95 = 0.158
Conversely: costs in В are approxi-
mately 14 per cent lower than in A.
110—95
io ج 0.136
18 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Cost comparisons cannot be made be-
tween different types of construction
because the index numbers for each
type relate to a different U. S. aver-
age for 1926-29.
Material prices and wage rates
used in the current indexes make no
allowance for payments in excess of
published list prices, thus indexes
reflect minimum costs and not neces-
sarily actual costs.
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In the executive dining room and in
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good, evenly balanced lighting.
Softer illumination, together with
freedom from maintenance prob-
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the recommendation of cast acrylic
sheets by the interior architectural
design firm of Maria Bergson Asso-
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In the dining room, the ceiling de-
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SPRING BRINGS BRIGHTER NEWS
NOW THAT Spring is here, harbingers of a thaw in the
business climate are multiplying. Some indicators that
were sliding downward have stopped, and others that
have been in the depths are beginning to move up. When
the history of the era is written, February may well turn
out to have been the bottom of the current recession.
Because we almost always look at statistics which have
been adjusted to account for the effects of normal sea-
sonal variation, we are inclined to forget that after
Christmas, the economy always falls into a state of mild
torpor because of the physical and psychological effects
of winter weather. And while the weather is always bad
in January and February, this year was far worse than
usual. In fact, even December set some new records for
general misery. We'll probably never know just how
much of the business dip this winter was due to purely
economic factors, and how much resulted from the worst
weather in the memory of the oldest inhabitants, but it's
a safe bet that the latter was more than a little to blame.
AMONG the cheerful notes: Industrial production
stopped declining in February. Auto sales perked up a
little in March. Steel consumption has been above the
rate of production for months, as inventories were drawn
down; and an improvement in production is due as orders
go up. Orders for paperboard, used for packaging prod-
ucts, have been rising for three months. The stock market
has been gaining in enthusiasm. And most important of
all is the construction industry, which is in itself a tail
large enough to wag the economic dog.
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS, as reported by F. W.
Dodge Corporation, have actually been at record levels
through all the miserable months of December, January
and February. Work performed on jobs under way un-
doubtedly suffered from the weather, but planning and
contract-letting went on at a great rate. The greatest
upsurge in activity came in heavy engineering projects,
including highways, electric utilities, and pipe lines.
Some building types have also done well. Among them:
apartments, hotels, public buildings. And, of course,
schools. The only really sick area of construction is the
single-family house, and as pointed out in this space be-
fore, there are hopes that easier money and government
actions will soon have some effects.
SCHOOL BUILDING contracts reached a record high in
1960, climbing above three billion dollars for the first
time in history. This total was far higher than the figure
for industrial buildings or stores or office buildings. And
the first reports for 1961 indicate that school contracts
are continuing right on up. This is a hopeful sign, both
economically and educationally.
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Close to 3000 Expected At
A.I.A.s Philadelphia Convention
One of its largest conventions ever,
with a total registration that is ex-
pected to reach 3000, is anticipated
by the American Institute of Archi-
tects for its annual sessions in Phila-
delphia April 24-28.
"Redesigning Urban America" is
the theme, and the professional pro-
gram will include such speakers as
Lewis Mumford, Bruno Zevi, and
Edmund Bacon (for details, Feb.
1961, page 19).
LeCorbusier is expected to be pres-
ent to receive the 1961 Gold Medal
of the A.I.A. at the annual dinner.
One of the most active social pro-
grams ever has been planned by a
host chapter committee headed by
Beryl Price; it will be highlighted
by a “command performance" of the
Philadelphia Orchestra under the di-
rection of Eugene Ormandy at the
Academy of Music.
All of the A.I.A.’s incumbent of-
ficers have been nominated for re-
election, with no contests developing
in preconvention nominations.
Edmund Purves Receives
Fitzpatrick Memorial Award
Edmund Purves, F.A.LA., consult-
Meetings and Miscellany
Drawn for the Record by Alan Dunn
"You'll just have to get over your acrophobia, Miss Jones, or look for a job in a sub-
standard, old-fashioned, out-of-date building!"
ing director and former executive
director of the American Institute of
Architects, has been named as the
1961 recipient of the second annual
F. Stuart Fitzpatrick Memorial
Award. The award for “outstanding
individual achievement in the unifi-
cation of the building industry” will
be given Mr. Purves at the Building
Research Institute’s Spring Confer-
ences in Washington, D.C. on May 17.
Created last year through dona-
tions of more than 100 building in-
dustry associations, the award hon-
ors the memory of Mr. Fitzpatrick
whose long and brilliant personal
leadership in unifying diverse ele-
ments of the building industry in-
cluded a pioneering role in the found-
ing and growth of the B.R.I. He was
for 25 years manager of the Con-
struction and Civic Development De-
partment of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
U.S. Theatre Institute Elects
Architect among New Officers
Architect Ben Schlanger, consulting
architect on Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts and member of the
Board of Standards and Planning of
the New York Chapter of ANTA, has
been elected vice president of the
recently organized United States In-
stitute for Theatre Technology.
Formed to meet an immediate and
rapidly growing national need for
the exchange of ideas on all aspects
of the theater, the U.S. Institute
hopes to base the successful planning
and design of new theaters and audi-
toriums in the United States on this
collective experience.
The first annual conference was
attended by 120 registered partici-
pants, including architects, acousti-
cal consultants, theatrical producers
and designers. Serving to formal-
ize the organization of the Insti-
tute and to begin the work of study
and planning theater structures, the
conference had general session pan-
els openly discussing various aspects
of theater planning, design, total en-
vironment and the needs of the thea-
ter architect of the future.
Elections were held following the
conference. Thomas De Giatani, di-
rector of the Stage Department of
Juilliard School of Music, having
served as president pro tem during
the Institute’s first organizational
year, was elected president; Mr.
Schlanger, vice president; Dr. Joel
E. Rubin, director of theatrical light-
ing division of Kliegl Brothers
Lighting Company and consultant in
theater planning and architecture,
continued on page 26
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 23
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its own; each shows the unbelievable versatility of
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the block with 1000 faces. Your local NCMA member
will be happy to assist you in working with new
Shadowal block.
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Meetings and Miscellany
continued from page 23
technical secretary; and John Cor-
nell, chairman of Stage Managers
Committee of Actors’ Equity, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Eric Pawley, Washington, D.C.,
Research Secretary of the A.I.A.,
was appointed chairman of the Com-
mittee on Theatrical Architecture,
Engineering and Construction, one
of the many committees organized
to study and recommend solutions to
current problems facing the theater.
Among the members of the new
Board of Directors are architects:
Arthur Benline—New York, Harold
Burris-Meyer—Washington, D.C.,
Felix Graham—New York, Russell
Johnson—Cambridge, Mass.; and
engineers Eric Pawley, Washington,
D.C., Ben Schlanger—New York,
Helge Westermann—New York, and
Robert E. Fischer of ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD, New York.
Bacon Wins 1961
Art Alliance Award
Edmund N. Bacon, A.I.A., executive
director of the Philadelphia City
Planning Commission since 1949, is
the 1961 winner of the Philadelphia
Art Alliance Medal of Achievement.
The highest honor the Art Alli-
ance can confer, the medal is pre-
sented annually to a person or per-
sons “identified with Philadelphia ог
its environs for the advancement of,
or outstanding achievement in, the
arts."
Detention Home Competition
Makes No 1961 Award
In the recent 1961 National Honor
Awards Competition for Excellence
in Design of Small and Large Deten-
tion Homes for Children, the jury
did not feel any of the projects sub-
mitted had the characteristics of the
excellence implied by a National
Honor Award. Consequently . no
award was made.
Sponsored by the National Coun-
cil on Crime and Delinquency in co-
operation with the American Insti-
tute of Architects, the awards pro-
gram was for the best large and best
small detention home ' for children
awaiting juvenile court disposition.
The jury was composed of Paul
Thiry, F.A.I.A., chairman; Sherwood
Norman, N.C.C.D.; John C. Downey,
N.C.C.D.; Sam T. Hurst, A.I.A.; and
Emerson Goble, Editor, ARCHITEC-
TURAL RECORD.
26 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
The report submitted by the jury
stated the reason it elected not to
make an award—‘... either the
projects had the functional charac-
teristics for up-to-date operation, but
lacked in architectural and environ-
mental quality, or conversely con-
tributed substantially to a new con-
cept in detention home design, but
did not fulfill the requirements for
proper administration."
The jury believed the submittals
represented “а major step forward
from what has commonly been con-
sidered a Detention Home and which
in the years past placed all appre-
hended children in a prison atmos-
phere, to buildings more alertly de-
signed for their purpose."
By not recognizing an award this
year, the jury “hopes to encourage
those designing Detention Homes for
Children to strive for keener under-
standing of the problem and for ex-
cellence in their design."
Harold King Elected
President of C.E.C.
Harold P. King, California consult-
ing engineer, will be installed as
president of the Consulting Engi-
neers Council at the fifth annual
Board of Directors Meeting, May 4-6
in Chicago. He succeeds Hueston M.
Smith, St. Louis, Mo.
Other newly elected officers in-
clude Cedric Robert Acheson, Syra-
сизе, N.Y., first vice president; San-
ford K. Fosholt, Muscatine, Ia., sec-
ond vice president; George J. Toman,
Mandan, N.D., secretary ; George W.
Poulsen Jr., Salt Lake City, Utah,
treasurer.
Jury Selected for
Red Rock Competition
Three architects and two developers
have been named to judge the San
Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s
competition for apartment houses to
be built on Red Rock Hill in Diamond
Heights (see Feb. AR, p. 48). They
are: John Carl Warnecke, A.I.A., of
Warnecke & Warnecke, Oakland; Er-
nest J. Kump, F.A.LA., Palo Alto;
Don Burkholder, of the Agency staff ;
and developers Joseph Eichler of
Palo Alto and Gerson Bakar of San
Francisco. Professional advisor is
William J. Watson, A.LA., of San
Francisco.
The panel will judge submitted de-
signs anonymously June 13-15, se-
lecting 10. The Agency will then
select five of these to offer to develop-
ers bidding for the 22-acre site.
The deadline for architects’ en-
tries is June 2nd in San Francisco,
with postmark at the point of origin
no later than 5:00 P.M. May 26th.
Weinberg Is Mellon Professor
at Carnegie Institute
Robert C. Weinberg, architect and
city planner, has been appointed
A. W. Mellon Distinguished Visit-
ing Professor in the College of Fine
Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technol-
ogy. His appointment is made possible
under the terms of the recent five
million dollar gift from the A. W.
Mellon Educational and Charitable
Trust to the Carnegie College of
Fine Arts.
A graduate of Harvard, Mr. Wein-
berg also attended the architectural
school and the school of city plan-
ning at Harvard. His career in-
cludes technical consultant for the
Mayor’s Committee of City Planning
in New York City, Associate City
Planner on the City Planning Com-
mission in New York, specialist in
housing with the National Housing
Agency, senior planner on the City
Planning Commission, Cleveland,
Ohio.
In private practice he has acted
as planning consultant to many of-
ficial agencies and groups, includ-
ing the Stamford, Conn. Develop-
ment Committee, the Sullivan
County, N.Y. Planning Board, the
Riverdale Community Planning As-
sociation, New York City.
Mr. Weinberg has served as ad-
junct professor of Urban Planning
in the Graduate School of Public
Administration at New York Uni-
versity and as lecturer and critic
at the New School for Social Re-
search, at Yale and Pratt Institute.
He has lectured on city planning in
Germany and Norway under the
Fulbright program.
He is the co-author of “Planning
and Community Appearance,” pub-
lished by the Regional Plan Asso-
ciation.
He is a member of the American
Institute of Architects, American
Institute of Planners, Society of Ar-
chitectural Historians апа the
American Society of Planning Offi-
cials.
more news on page 44
Davis, Brody, and Wisniewski, Architects
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specifications, was simple and quick. The panels were supplied with lugs welded to the grating in such a
way as to easily slip into pre-drilled holes in the mullions.
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Oakland’s magnificent new landmark, Kaiser Center, has carried its theme of luxurious
quality to its auditorium seating with the choice of 400 “Airflo Rocking Chair Loges”
by HEYWOOD-WAKEFIELD. In design, these chairs match the contemporary look of
the Center itself. In construction, their coil-spring seats and backs and foam-cushioned
armrests assure guests of armchair comfort. The exclusive spring-base mechanism main-
tains the correct pitch, seat-to-back, no matter how the occupant shifts his weight. Small
wonder that the architects of so many of the nation’s most impressive new buildings are
choosing seating by HEYWOOD-WAKEFIELD — including Chicago's McCormick
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There isa HEYWOOD-WAKEFIELD chair to match the spirit of every building, and
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assures sparkling, sanitized dishes—with maximum dish-
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These new Hobart developments have now proved themselves in
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proud to specify for any job. Embodying the latest advances in engineering and
production, Cupples new “40 line" of stock doors and frames is simplicity itself. It
not only saves time and labor in assembly and on-the-job installation, but it offers
you complete design flexibility for any job requirement.
Consider for a moment these outstanding features and you'll see why architects and
building owners are so enthusiastic about Cupples entrance doors and frames.
THE DOOR: Adjustable setting block permits proper alignment after glazing. Choice
of offset pivots, butts or concealed overhead closers. Square cut horizontals are easily cut
for size adjustment. Tension rod holds styles together at top and bottom. Strong corner
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This new Bellevue, Wash., warehouse was designed by Frankfurter, Harstad & Associates; general contractor:
Sellen & Hansen, Inc.; sub-contractor for roof: Pioneer Sheet Metal & Roofing, Inc. All are Seattle firms.
Bethlehem Slabform in new warehouse roof
saves time, money, and materials
Slabform,* Bethlehem's solid steel formed sheet for floor
and roof construction, was used in building the roof of a
new drug warehouse in Seattle. Some 30,000 sq ft of
Bethlehem's standard Slabform were placed in combina-
tion with insulating concrete to form what is known in the
trade as an insulating-concrete, high-strength steel roof
system. The concrete was placed to a 214-in. thickness, and
covered with conventional built-up roofing.
Here's why Slabform and insulating concrete save money
in roof construction:
e RAPID PLACEMENT OF SLABFORM is possible be-
cause of the uniformity of dimensions and cross-section
of the steel, often resulting in reduced installation costs.
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a ... Economy
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e END-LAP MATERIAL AND HANDLING REDUCED.
Slabform in any gage can be provided in long lengths,
restricted only by handling and shipping limitations.
e MAXIMUM SPANS OF 10 FT. You can select from
five gages of Slabform to accommodate the most economi-
cal support spacings.
e HIGH INSULATING VALUE. Where insulating value
is a factor, this roof system is normally one of the most
economical.
e SAFE WORKING PLATFORM. Slabform is tough
enough to withstand normal construction abuse.
For full information on Slabform, call the nearest
Bethlehem sales office, or write to us at Bethlehem, Pa.
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Popular Bradley-Modern Duos are easily operated by a
convenient foot pedal. There are no germ-laden taps to
fuss with — hands touch only a clean spray of tem-
pered water. And that same spray rinses the Duo's bowl
clean during every use!
Where space is a problem, two persons can wash at a
Duo — thereby doubling washroom capacity. Duos serve
these two people with just one set of plumbing connec-
tions — saving installation costs, as well. Remember
Duos in your initial planning on medical and dental
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Bradley Washfountains and Showers provide group facil-
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Dux Furniture
at home on
Armstrong
Excelon Tile
For the new Dux, Incorporated, showrooms in Burlingame, California, architects Knorr and Elliott chose
a floor of Armstrong Imperial Excelon Tile (style 861). The small chip, terrazzo design provides a con-
stantly attractive background for the changing furniture displays. Even in areas of heaviest traffic the
terrazzo design neither disappears nor blurs during the long life of the floor. Imperial Excelon is the origi-
nal vinyl-asbestos material with a design that truly goes all the way through the thickness of the tile. Yet
the cost of Imperial is surprisingly moderate—about 45¢ a sq. ft. installed.
TECHNICAL DATA ON ARMSTRONG IMPERIAL EXCELON TILE: uses: above, on, or below grade; composition: vinyl resins
reinforced with asbestos; durability: excellent; static load limits: 25 psi.; underfoot comfort and quiet: fair; grease resist-
ance: excellent; alkali resistance: excellent; ease of maintenance: excellent; gauges: 1/8" and 3/32"; size: 9" x 9”:
colors: 14; approximate price per sq. ft. installed: 35—454. B.
The Armstrong Architectural-Builder Consultant in your area can furnish you with samples and complete
specs on the Imperial Series in Excelon Tile or any other Armstrong floor. Since Armstrong makes all types
of resilient floors, he can recommend, without bias, the type of floor best for any job. In addition, he can
get for you the services of technical, decorating, and installation experts at Armstrong. Call him at your
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Excelon (vinyl-asbestos) Rubber Tile 1/8" .070" and .090" Custom Corlon
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Linoleum (tile and sheet) Custom Corlon ”
.090" and .125” . (vinyl) Tile Custom Vinyl Cork
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Meetings and Miscellany
continued from page 26
Yamasaki Receives Honorary
Degree at Michigan University
Minoru Yamasaki was among three
recipients of honorary degrees at
the University of Michigan mid-year
graduation exercises. Also honored
were: Chester Bowles, acting U.S.
Undersecretary of State and No-
bumoto Ohama, educator, jurist,
president of Japan’s Waseda Uni-
versity. While Mr. Bowles and Mr.
Ohama received Doctor of Laws de-
grees, Mr. Yamasaki received the
degree of Doctor of Architecture.
The honorary degree citation
read: "American architecture in
this century has sought to create
the spatial forms appropriate to an
industrial age. Rejecting ornamen-
tation as pretense, the contempor-
ary designer has made it his creed
to assert chiefly material function
and frankly to reveal steel or con-
crete frames. Too often, however,
our modern buildings are revelatory
a revolutionary new feature in
TO RJ ESEN FOLDING PARTITIONS
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Effects 100% Closure Regardless
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Each section of a Torjesen Partition
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of high or low floor points, each panel is held rigidly in 10096 contact with
the floor making the entire partition immovable.
"Tbe new "T" Floor Seal is now standard equipment on all Torjesen Fold-
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QD... FLOOR SEAL NOW
IN GENERAL USE Cannot Effect
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'The drawing at right shows this.
When the partition is closed the seal
in the first door section is triggered
and in turn activates each following
Seal All seals reach same
Activator level which is highest
point on floor area.
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on the floor area. Any irregularity in floor contour will cause the rest of
the panels to hang loosely thus affecting the rigidity of the entire partition.
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of structure and of little else. And
the human spirit, which cannot live
by structural logic alone, has longed
for the nurture of lightness, of fan-
tasy, of joy.
“It has been the mission of Mi-
noru Yamasaki to supply this defi-
ciency. He conceives of architecture
as a pleasurable and festive art.
Alone among the moderns, he de-
lights in decorative symmetry, rich
screens and curtain walls. In such
buildings as the St. Louis Airport
Terminal, the Music Conservatory
at Oberlin College, and the Mc-
Gregor Conference Center, the Rey-
nolds Metals Building, and the
American Concrete Institute in De-
troit, he has once more granted the
imagination and emotions the right
of autonomous being.
*He is the forerunner, it may be,
of a general movement to reconcile
the measure of his art to the meas-
ure of man. Expressing admiration
for his manifold talents and grati-
tude for his contributions to archi-
tectural amenity within our state,
the University now confers on him
the degree of Doctor of Architec-
ture."
Mies Elected to National
Institute of Arts and Letters
Mies Van der Rohe is among the
nine distinguished artists, writers
and composers elected this year to
the National Institute of Arts and
Letters. Others are Langston
Hughes, poet, p'aywright and nov-
elist; Carl Van Vechten, novelist
and critic; Conrad Richter, novel-
ist; George Biddle, painter; Jacques
Lipchitz, sculptor; Norman Dello
Joio, composer; Arthur Schlesinger
Jr. historian; and Leonard Bern-
stein, composer and director of the
New York Philharmonic Society.
The National Institute of Arts and
Letters and its affiliated body, the
American Academy of Arts and Let-
ters, are the highest honor societies
of creative artists in the United
States, and the only ones which
have been granted Federal Char-
ters by Congress.
Membership in the Institute is
limited to 250, the recent election
bringing the number to 246. Formal
induction of the new members will
take place at the joint Annual Cere-
monial on May 24.
more news on page 72
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Required Reading
Corbu’s Autobiography
CREATION IS A PATIENT SEARCH. By Le
Corbusier. Frederick A. Praeger,
Inc., 64 University Place, New York
3. 812 pp: illus. $15.
Though neither the author nor the
publisher call it such, this is Le Cor-
busier’s autobiography. Like Sulli-
van’s autobiography, it contains a
minimum of vital statistics and a
maximum of philosophical develop-
ment. And like Dante’s Inferno,
when published in years to come (as
it surely will be), it will require foot-
notes as copious as the text itself
(what, for instance, was the French
law that scuttled the Loucheur house
scheme in 1929, and exactly what are
“neutralizing walls,” invented for
the Centrosoyus but never used?).
Aside from a brief and sympathet-
ic introduction by Maurice Jardot, the
book is all L-C—text, drawings, cap-
tions, layout and dust jacket.
Though Creation is a Patient
Search is not the call to action that
Vers Une Architecture was—the ti-
tle admits as much—it does give
some idea of Le Corbusier’s view of
himself. On the evidence shown here,
he is a man greatly (though by no
means utterly) lacking humor, as
who would not be faced with the
dreary list of rejected designs of the
20’s, 30’s and 40’s. The evidence also
shows a man of optimism and, per
the title, patience. A collection of
photographs of finished buildings to-
ward the end of the book including
the Unité d’Habitation, Ronchamp,
Chandigarh and La Tourette, seem to
promise a happy ending.
Guide for Hospital Planning
PLANNING THE SURGICAL SUITE. By
Warwick Smith. F. W. Dodge Corpo-
ration, 119 W. 40th St., New York 18.
471 pp, illus. $12.75.
BY ROBERT S. MYERS, M.D.*
It is regrettable that this immensely
readable and provocative storehouse
* Executive assistant director, Amer-
ican College of Surgeons.
50 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
of practical information on the sur-
gical suite was not available 15 years
ago when the rash of new community
hospitals broke out all over the coun-
try. It could have helped prevent the
construction of some of the inade-
quate and impractical suites that
were obsolete before they were off the
drawing board.
Mr. Smith has put his finger
squarely upon the basic difficulty in
designing a surgical suite—too little
thought is given to function and too
much reliance is put in conventional
plans designed for hospitals of like
size. This is not entirely the fault of
the architect: he has had little help
from the surgeon, the administrator
and the operating room personnel for
whom the suite is built. But how can
these busy people advise adequately ?
The guidelines have been few, and
the problem is complicated by the
thousand-and-one details peculiar to
each individual hospital.
There is no longer any reason why
the people who work in hospitals can-
not participate in the planning of the
surgical suite. Mr. Smith leads the
novice briskly and surely through
the maze of details which must be
considered before a single line is
drawn on the plans. He presents ar-
guments for and against certain
types of layout, of design, and of
equipment. He stresses the impor-
tance of traffic patterns and use-cy-
cles. He presents tables and figures
which summarize the essential infor-
mation for the reader, and he writes
in such a lucid entertaining manner
that the mysteries of sterilization, of
conductive flooring, and of heating,
ventilating and air conditioning are
dispelled. Best of all, Mr. Smith has
provided a checklist to remind the
planner of the many questions he
must answer if the suite will be an
efficient and pleasant workshop.
The book does contain a few de-
fects. For one thing, there is insuf-
ficient consideration of how best to
transfer a patient from the contami-
nated areas of the hospital to the
sanctity of the operating room suite,
without tracking bacteria all over the
place. For another, his methods of
entrance of surgeons and operating
room personnel into the restricted
areas of the suite leave something to
be desired. And lastly, the author's
suggestion that the supervisor of the
surgical suite interview salesmen in
her office makes me shudder.
In any event, I like this book and
am going to recommend it to the sur-
geons who ask me for a “‘set of plans"
for their proposed surgical suites.
Baroque in Depth
THE AGE OF GRANDEUR. Baroque Art
and Architecture. By | Victor-L.
Tapié, trans, by A. Ross Williamson.
Grove Press, Inc., 64 University
Place, New York 3. 305 pp., illus.
$12.50.
Exhibiting the kind of scholarship-
in-depth that is, alas, too often asso-
ciated with the deadly dull, Mr. Tapié
has written a lucid and continually
interesting account of Baroque art
and, particularly, architecture. His
observations are based on an impres-
sive background of geographical, po-
litical, economic and cultural facts of
the 16th and 17th centuries as well
as on the ephemerae of esthetic fash-
ion.
The breadth of the author’s gen-
eral knowledge seems to have led to a
similar breadth in his definition of
*Baroque"—a definition so broad as
not only to include Italy and Central
Europe, but also Stuart England and
Bourbon France. So inclusive is his
view, in fact, that it seems only by a
great act of will that the Rococo was
not also covered.
Rather obviously excluded from
the book is Spanish Baroque, which
the author himself admits is a
“yawning gap,” although Baroque in
the New World is considered at some
length. The omission is not likely to
affect his basic hypothesis that Ba-
roque was a style “at the same time
monarchie, aristocratic, religious
and attached to the land," but it is a
glaring one nonetheless.
The illustrations are excellent,
though (and this seems inevitable in
books requiring long texts and many
ilustrations) diabolically arranged
to pick up as many sticky finger-
prints as possible on the slick coated
paper.
continued on page 57
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no wonder the contract went to steel— steel cut costs by $23,000!
They were almost ready to go ahead on the new bridge in Elkhart County, Indiana, when they decided to take a second
look at costs. Original plans called for material other than steel, but maybe steel construction could save money.
And save, it did! Steel bids were actually $23,000 lower and that wasn’t all. Maintenance had not been one of
the considerations till the steel bid suggested its importance—as one consulting engineer put it, ‘I’ve never seen
or heard of any type bridge which is maintenance-free.” Thus, even with maintenance included, steel construc-
tion was shown to be less costly than any other material. In fact, accompanying studies clearly showed the only
maintenance required would be painting and that only $4,488.84 invested at 37 would take care of that for
50 years. Thoroughly convinced, the County Commissioners changed the plans and awarded the contract to steel.
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Anew era
in face
lighting
When the architectural firm of Car-
son & Lundin designed the soaring,
ultra modern ‘666’ Fifth Avenue
building in New York, they consulted
renowned lighting engineer, Abe
Feder. The resulting illumination of
this outstanding structure extends its
impressiveness into the night, making
‘666’ a familiar part of the New York
scene to millions of visitors every
year. To emphasize the sky scraping
effects of the building, Mr. Feder
specified the Radiant 1000 watt R-80
Merco-Spot Mercury Vapor Lamps.
This is one of the first lamps capable
of carrying brilliant illumination to
the heights reached by a modern,
metropolitan landmark.
The symbol of
better lamps.
Long-life Radiant Lamps provide the
proper kind of constant, bright illu-
mination for structures of every height
and design. A building, like any prod-
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itself. Radiant lighting subtly, effec-
tively and constantly provides the
necessary public relations to make
the most of architectural genius. For
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lighting, write or phone Les Deutsch
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Required Reading
continued from page 50
Japanese Architecture Today
NEW JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE. By
Ugo Kultermann. Frederick A. Prae-
ger, Inc., 64 University Place, New
York 3. 37 pp., 180 pp illus. $13.75.
This concise and comprehensible text
Should prove useful to anyone inter-
ested in the current impressive activ-
ities of Japanese architecture, and
invaluable to anyone contemplating a
trip to Japan which would take in
more than the traditional tourists'
destinations, The first section of the
text gives a history in brief of vari-
ous Japanese periods and influences,
including the modern; the second
section describes the postwar prob-
lems of Japanese architects and the
emerging importance of some build-
ing types, particularly of local gov-
ernment administration centers and
community cultural centers; the
third section comprises brief biogra-
phies of the currently active archi-
tects.
The plentiful illustrations would
seem to indicate that Japanese archi-
tectural photographers are as skill-
ful as Japanese architects them-
selves.
Architectural Biographies
DONATO BRAMANTE. By Gino Thierici;
trans. by Peter Simmons. PHILIBERT
DE L'ORME. By L. Brion-Guerry,
trans. by Peter Simmons. CHRISTO-
PHER WREN. By Nikolaus Pevsner.
ANTONI GAUDI. By Cesar Martinelli,
trans, by Peter Simmons. LE CORBU-
SIER. By Jean Alazard. Universe
Books, 381 Fourth Ave., New York
16. Pages unnumbered, all illus.
$1.50 each (paperbound).
These five booklets launch a new se-
ries on architects by the publishers
of earlier series on artists. The intro-
ductory texts are in all cases brief
and straightforward, although Pevs-
ner goes beyond a simple chronicle in
order to make some interesting com-
ments on the Englishness of Wren.
The illustrations, at the price, are
fine and liberally provided—the Gau-
continued on page 65
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Architectural. . . .
di collection is particularly good in
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Vitruvius Reprinted
VITRUVIUS: THE TEN BOOKS OF ARCHI-
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This edition of the Vitruvian text is
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Hardly anyone would argue for the
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the construction of machinery.” On
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tained by some of the rules for siting
and for proportioning, or to be im-
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By Philip Will, Jr., Е.А.1.А. President, The American Institute of Architects
I hold that the architectural profession should assume responsibility for nothing
less than the nation’s MAN-MADE ENVIRONMENT, including the use of land, water
and air, AN ENVIRONMENT IN HARMONY WITH THE ASPIRATIONS OF MAN.
For what aspect of the nation’s welfare should
the architectural profession be responsible? For
what are we (or should we be) educated and
trained? For the design of buildings? For groups
of buildings? For cosmetics applied to the work
of engineers? Or is there a more comprehensive
mission to which we may aspire? I hold that there is.
If land is debauched, or streams polluted, our air
a nauseous mix of soot, fumes, and the lethal gas
of industry; if our cities are exploited jungles of
disorder and corrupting ugliness; and, if there is
little safety and no amenity, to whom can the
public look for help, for guidance, for vision? To
the realtor? The developer? The politician?
The answer must be: the architect. In one form
or another, the solutions to all of these problems
lie in the province of design, which is the special
province of the architect.
By common consent, a free society looks to each
profession to assume responsibility for that aspect
of public welfare for which it is qualified by edu-
cation and training. The successful discharge by
a profession of its responsibilities, both individual
and collective, brings great rewards in recognition
of leadership, in gains both social and economic,
and in freedom of action. All gain. The failure
of a profession to discharge its responsibility is not
long tolerated by a dissatisfied public — and a dis-
satisfied public appeals to government. Thus, for
example, if the public feels its medical needs are
not adequately met, the medical profession loses
status, freedom, and independence. Doctors become
employees of the State. Patients are assigned and
the fees are fixed, with far-reaching consequences
to this nation’s fundamental philosophies. The
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So here is the demand, the challenge. Never before
in history has America so needed the design pro-
fessions. Never before has the opportunity for
leadership by the architectural profession been so
overwhelming and self-evident.
We are at a crossroads.
To say that the architectural profession is now
totally prepared to meet the challenge would be
self-deluding. Some individuals recognize the
need; a small number are qualified to perform;
an even lesser few are willing to act. In reacting
to the magnitude of the task, we therefore have
much to do and far to go. The longest journey,
however, begins with a single step. That first step
will have been taken if we can but agree on a
definition of our professional mission. The
services to be rendered, the skills, education and
training required, the necessary organization and
methods of practice all will follow as further steps
on the way.
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the nation from environmental debauchery? Such
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The Record Reports
1961 A.C.S.A. Roster
The recently issued roster of mem-
bers of the Association of Collegi-
ate Schools of Architecture reveals
no major changes in the member-
ship. No schools have been dropped
since 1960, nor have any been
added. There are some changes
within the roster. Cooper Union Art
School has changed its name to the
Cooper Union School of Art and
Architecture. Two changes have
been made in associate member
schools in the designations of de-
partments and schools. University
of New Mexico’s former Division
has become the Department of Ar-
chitecture. Ohio University’s for-
mer Department has become the
School of Architecture. There were
a number of changes among the
heads and deans. At Columbia Uni-
versity James G. Van Derpool, for-
merly Acting Dean of the School
of Architecture, is Associate Dean.
Charles R. Colbert is Dean. At Cor-
nell University’s College of Archi-
tecture, Burnham Kelly is Dean.
Rev. Lawrence J. Green, S.J., is
Acting Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Architecture at the Univer-
sity of Detroit. At Montana State
College School of Architecture,
Harold C. Rose is Director. Mendel
Glickman is Chairman of the School
of Architecture at the University of
Oklahoma. Rockwell K. DuMoulin
is Acting Chairman of the Division
of Architecture at the Rhode Island
School of Design. In Rice Univer-
sity’s Department of Architecture,
Donald Barthelme is Program
Chairman; James C. Morehead Jr.
is Administrative Chairman. Acting
Dean of University of Southern
California’s School of Architecture
is Henry Charles Burge. John W.
Lawrence has become Dean of the
School of Architecture at Tulane
University. Chairman of the De-
partment of Architecture at West-
ern Reserve is William T. Priestley.
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Home Builders and the American
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The Record Reports
continued from page 72
the building firm of Edmund J. Ben-
nett, both of Washington, D.C. The
award is presented to encourage
collaboration between architects
and builders with the overall goal
of constant improvement in the de-
sign and construction of homes and
communities.
Competition judges were: Philip
Will Jr., F.A.LA., president of the
A.LA.; Edward Н. Fickett, A.I.A.;
Alfred B. Parker, F.A.LA.; and
builders Robert A. Fox, A. N. Miller
and Clarence Kettler.
Obituaries
James Kellum Smith, F.A.I.A., part-
ner in the firm of McKim, Mead &
White, died on February 18 at his
home in New York City.
A graduate of Amherst College
and the University of Pennsylvania
School of Architecture, he won the
Prix de Rome in architecture in
1920. He was a member and for
three years a vice president of the
National Institute of Arts and Let-
ters.
Noted for college campus works,
Mr. Smith designed buildings at
Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury,
Trinity, and Union Colleges, Col-
gate, Tufts and Wesleyan Univer-
sities and for the Universities of
Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylva-
nia and Vermont. His final work
was the Museum of History and
Technology, under construction for
the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, and scheduled for
completion by spring of next year.
William C. Mann, A.LA., partner
in the firm of Mann & Harrover,
Memphis, died on December 31, 1960.
Mr. Mann was а graduate of
Georgia Tech, a past secretary-
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American Institute of Architects.
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winning design on Memphis Arts
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at competitive prices. Double weather-stripped,
alumilited, and available in panels with single
or 5$" insulated glass.
WINDOWS AND WINDOWALLS
The most economical window wall available.
Infinite variety is achieved by mulling and
stacking PANASEAL windows in any combination.
Ideal for schools and commercial buildings.
PANASEAL windows also available for resi-
dential use.
ENTRANCES
Engineered for greater strength by integrating
1” narrow stiles with V2" plate glass, GRIDWALL
offers the most appealing entrance door on the
market. Cylinder lock, housed in push and pull
plates of charcoal bronze finish, simultaneously
throws a concealed bolt into threshold and head
of door frame for maximum security. A complete
line of mullion framing for flush glazing is
available.
write for brochures and details
GLIDE-GRIDWALL • 7463 Varna Avenue
North Hollywood, California * TR. 7-3213
PAINTING BY JOHN OTTERSON
RHYTHM
Architecture sings! Visual symphonies are composed of light, shade, color, and form... the vibrant notes of
curtain wall. Mullions in uniform or accented progression create the pulsating movement of living facades.
Performance is best with GRIDWALL...THE DOMINANT NOTE IN CURTAIN WALLS.
With grid profiles of pure, rectangular sight lines, GRIDWALL reflects light from appendage-free surfaces,
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SOUND
SOLUTION
TO A SOUND
PROBLEM:
ALTEC
SOUND
SYSTEM
Specified for
La Concha Hotel
San Juan, Puerto Ríco
ADDITIONAL GUEST AND
PERSONNEL FACILITIES
43 SPEAKERS
BALLROOM
COMMERCIAL 26 SPEAKERS
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CASE HISTORY FILE 59-36: The luxurious resort and
entertainment facilities at the new La Concha Hotel include
254 rooms, 12 pool-side cabanas, terrace gardens, supper club,
ballroom, bar, and cafeteria.
SOUND PROBLEM: Because of location, the system selected
had to be easy to install, easy to operate. And, most important,
the system had to have uncompromising durability.
SOUND SOLUTION BY ALTEC: An ALTEC Sound System
was installed. Three ALTEC 1570 Amplifiers provide a cumulative
total of 525 watts of dependable power. This equipment—and all
other ALTEC control and source units—were easily mounted in
only two 84” racks. This compact ALTEC installation provides
distortion-free power to more than 300 ALTEC Speakers on three
separate systems, with three selectable channels in each.
LET ALTEC HELP SOLVE YOUR SOUND PROBLEM: Over
several decades, ALTEC has specialized in custom sound systems.
ALTEC Engineered Sound Products—over 200 individual audio
components—are specified throughout the world for sound projects
where quality, dependability, ease of installation and operation
are requisite.
Find out about the solution ALTEC offers your sound project,
large or small, present or pending. Merely call the nearest ALTEC
Sound Contractor (listed under “Public Address" or “Sound Systems”
in your Yellow Pages) or write Dept. AR-4. No obligation, of course.
ALTEC Sound Contractor to La Concha Hotel; McKee Electric Inc.,
Mt. Vernon, New York in cooperation with Sole Electric Inc., Puerto Rico.
© 1961 Altec Lansing Corporation
NE ALTEC LANSING
CORPORATION
A Subsidiary of Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc.
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At Last! A Rich, Durable Vinyl...
Fits easily into your specifications
Fabrique Vinyl Non-Woven Wall Cloth by Birge is designed for exten-
sive, economical use in homes, buildings, institutions. |
You'll find it compares favorably with expensive heavy vinyls in
every way, particularly price. You can go decoratively “all out”
with Fabrique's wide selection of designs, colors, whitest of whites,
flocks, embossed effects, raised printing, matching fabrics.
Versatile Fabrique decorates room after room with lastingly beau-
tiful vinyl non-woven wall cloth at reasonable cost. Washable. Scuff
and abrasion resistant. Covers surface flaws. Pulls off easily for redec-
orating. Enhances the charm of any room for years. For Fabrique
sample and informative folder, write: Dept. AR-4
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Light and Sun Control To Your Specifications
One person was determined to use Elkirt Vertical Blinds of Fabric
on the outside to protect a picture window from the sun. Although
it is not recommended for out of door use, this June 1958, installation
is still functioning with the original Elkirt hardware and Dupont’s
Tontine louver material. This is certainly some indication of
a “rugged, dependable product” as it has performed beyond its
requirements in the wind, rain, snow and sun.
The Elkirt “Vertical” is a quality product using a simple, patented
design which insures many years of trouble free service. It is decora-
tive, functional, silent operating, and offers uniform “controlled
appearance” at the window.
We would be happy to send you detailed information, or if you wish
have a representative call on you. Please advise by writing to: the
Elkirt Corporation 1500-02 Illinois, Des Moines 14, Towa.
Authorized sales outlets in most areas of the United States, Canada
and Puerto Rico.
Attractive, opaque vertical louver blinds provide subdued light in all rooms of Graymoor Friary, Garri N. Y., where 400 of this type were installed.
Control light the
modern way with vertical
blinds of Du Pont Tontine Triglas
Vertical louver blinds of Du Pont “Tontine” Triglas vinyl-coated cloth give
windows a smart new look. Neat and compact, blinds rotate to allow light
desired. Traverse cord pulls them like a drape to either side of window. Matte
white finish reflects solar heat; keeps rooms cool in summer. Fit openings of
any height or width. Long-lasting. Easily cleaned with damp cloth. Du Pont
makes the fabric for the louvers, does not make the blinds.
Tontine® Triglas
Washable Window Shade Cloth
REG. U. 5. РАТ. ОРГ.
BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING... THROUGH CHEMISTRY
Send coupon for sample swatches and further facts about Triglas
E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.)
Fabrics Division AR-4, Wilmington 98, Delaware
Please send swatches of ''Tontine'' Triglas vertical louver
cloth and names of manufacturers of vertical blinds.
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DYNAFLITE
From
Haughton Elevonics
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This Breakthrough
in Automatic
Elevator Control
Now every trip can be incredibly fast and smooth . . . for unparalleled service
Imagine floor-to-floor travel so smooth you can barely
sense acceleration and deceleration . . . and faster than
engineers thought possible a few years ago. It’s a
practical reality today, with Haughton Dynaflite...
bold new concept of operatorless elevator control for
new buildings and old.
The Dynaflite System is fully automatic . . . thor-
oughly reliable. Every run is as precisely controlled as
EMBLEM OF
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IN VERTICAL
TRANSPORTATION
*DUMBWAITERS
e PASSENGER AND FREIGHT ELEVATORS • ESCALATORS
* SPECIALIZED LIFT EQUIPMENT
those that preceded it, and those that will follow.
Dynaflite is but one result of the magic of Elevonies *
. which, today, is shaping the new technology in
vertical transportation. Get all the facts on Dynaflite, as
well as Haughton’s complete design, modernization and
maintenance capabilities. The Haughton representative
in your area will gladly consult with you—no obligation,
of course. Or, write today.
Haughton Elevator Company
DIVISION of TOLEDO SCALE CORPORATION * Toledo S, Ohio
OFFICES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES
Haughton’s advanced program in elevator
systems research and engineering, with
specific emphasis on the creative application
of electronic devices and instrumentation for
betterment of systems design and performance.
Registered in U.S. Patent Office.
бым AIR-COOLED CONDENSERS
Fandaire’s original circular design has basic
exclusive features that are making this air-
cooled condenser the new standard of the
industry. There are good reasons why: this
modern low silhouette condenser is engi-
neered around the high heat-dissipating
Yuba fintube. Every spiral is surrounded
by swiftly moving cool air from every
direction. Although Fandaire’s heavier fin
construction assures higher heat transfer
efficiency, the entire unit weighs at least
one-third less than ordinary condensers.
Fandaire’s circular design eliminates re-
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be positioned where needed, without guy
wires or extra bracing. Piping and installa-
tion savings can be considerable.
Built for industrial, commercial and home
installation —from 3 to 120 tons, single or
multiple units. Get full details today.
specialists in circular air-cooled condensers and condensing units
YUBA FANDAIRE DIVISION
Tulsa, Oklahoma
| YUBA CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 89
А new design. The visible difference of the new Sheffield
S-series joist is that both top and bottom chords are made
of cold-rolled strip steel formed into a “hat” section, in-
stead of hot-rolled shapes. Instead of bars at bottom and
two angles at the top, the chord member is now a one-
piece, stronger unit. In tests to destruction, the new de-
sign has met or exceeded Steel Joist Institute standards.
SHEFFIELD
Open-Web
Geared Up To Hold Down Construction Cost!
Sheffield’s New Electronically Controlled Steel Joist
Production Facilities Are Vast, Fast and Unsurpassed
90
Now you can key your design plans to Sheffield’s new-
ly designed open-web steel joists with greater assur-
ance of effecting construction economies than ever
before.
1. Tripled capacity in a brand new fabricating plant—
2. —equipped for fast, precision production with the
very latest electronically controlled cold forming
machines—
3. —assures a full measure of the benefits flowing
from high productivity in volume—
4. —affords the economies derived from dependable on-
schedule shipments to meet construction schedules.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Add these advantages to design economies which
stronger, lower deadload joists make possible and you
come up with competitively substantial structures at
lower cost.
The steel that goes into Sheffield Joists is made in
Sheffield’s own mills to specifications and under qual-
ity controls. This enables Sheffield to make double
sure that Sheffield joists meet Steel Joist Institute
specifications.
Your Sheffield distributor and nearest Sheffield office
will co-operate in making available detailing service
on your projects.
New Joist Data Book-Free!
40 pages of up-to-date and complete data on new Shef-
field S-series and on Sheffield L-series joists. Contains
properties and dimension data, load design tables, floor,
roof and ceiling applications and accessories data, revised
Steel Joist Institute specifications and recommended code
of practices. For this complete working manual, write
Sheffield Division, Armco Steel Corporation, Sheffield
Station, Kansas City 25, Missouri.
ou?
ARMCO Sheffield Division
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
April 1961
91
We'd be happy to do your laundry. Because designing laundries is our business
at American. We are intimately familiar with the many important factors which determine
size, layout, cost, personnel and type of equipment best suited for any proposed laundry
facility: More important, we will furnish every bit of information you need to incorporate
an efficient, space-saving laundry into your overall building design e When your building
project includes a laundry department . . . it's a job for American. Call one of our nearby
offices or representatives (see the yellow pages), or write for complete information.
You get more from
American Laundry Machinery Industries, Cincinnati 12, Ohio nn @ Р [| Cc a n.
See our catalog in Sweet's
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2 out of 3 architects, contractors, distributors say:
“THIS EMBLEM ON
A FIXTURE BALLAST
MEANS TOP
PERFORMANCE!”
“It means
long-lasting
service”
CBM
CERTIFIED
by
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longer
lamp life”
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Among a nationwide sample of
1200 architects, contractors and distributors
2 out of 3 linked CBM with top performance.
atone ater And they’re right! For Certified CBM Ballasts must meet rigid standards for performance...
(€— as checked by independent ETL. And these CBM specifications also provide many practical
Wn à Р benefits . . . including e longer ballast life e higher light output, and e ир to 2500 hours longer
7A l lamp life than with non-certified ballasts. You get UL listing, too! So when you specify or
E | - install fluorescent lighting fixtures, it pays to insist on fixtures that have Certified CBM Bal-
lasts. If you'd like to keep posted on ballast facts and news, ask us to send you CBM NEWS.
Write CERTIFIED BALLAST MANUFACTURERS, 2116 Keith Bldg., Cleveland 15, Ohio.
Participation in CBM is open to any manufacturer who wishes to qualify
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 98
BEAUTIFUL MARLITE PANELING
for wash-and-wear walls that never show their age!
Walls of Marlite paneling stay like new for years,
yet require only minutes of care. That’s because
Marlite’s baked plastic finish shrugs off grease, stains.
mars—even heat. And unlike many “finished” wall
panels that dull with age and damage through use,
Marlite’s hard, dent-resistant surface keeps its beauty
with an occasional damp cloth wiping.
Quickly installed over old or new walls Marlite
offers almost unlimited decorating possibilities. You
can select from authentic Trendwood® reproduc-
tions, beautiful plain colors, distinctive marble and
decorator patterns.
Get complete details from your building mate-
rials dealer, consult Sweet’s File, or write Marlite
Division of Masonite Corporation, Department 405,
Dover, Ohio.
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Marlite plastic-finished paneling
MARLITE IS ANOTHER QUALITY PRODUCT OF MASONITE® RESEARCH
MARLITE BRANCH OFFICES AND WAREHOUSES: 204 Permalume Place N.W., Atlanta 18, Georgia +
Dallas 35, Texas * 1657 Powell Street, Emeryville, California (Oakland) * 3050 Leonis Bivd., Los Angeles 58, Calif, *
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
18 Moulton Street, Cambridge 38, Mass. * 1925 No. Harlem Ave., Chicago 35, Illinois *
39 Windsor Avenue, Mineola, L. I. (New York) * 2440 Sixth Avenue So., Seattle 4, Washington
8908 Chancellor Row,
THE OLD SOUTH’S MOST FABULOUS AND COLORFUL ЕВА IS REFLECTED IN HANDSOME CARPETS FROM BIGELOW’S EXCLUSIVE ECHOWEAVE GROUP
HENRY END CHOOSES BIGELOW CARPET FOR THE LAVISH NEW ROYAL ORLEANS HOTEL
Henry End, first decorator
to receive a citation from
the American Institute of
Architects, has received
more interior design
awards than anyone in
the U. S.
Famed interior designer, Henry End, A.I.D.,
I.D.L, has decorated The Royal Orleans
Hotel. in the French Quarter of New Orleans,
with an elegance and style that blends per-
fectly with this fine establishments historic
surroundings. The Bigelow Carpets chosen
for all private rooms and suites were spe-
cially planned to carry out Mr. End's
individual design.
Bigelow Carpet is selected by leading de-
signers for the most important architectural
jobs. Reasonable price, long economical
PEOPLE WHO KNOW...BUY
Photos by Ezra Stoller Associates
service, and top performance under traffic — as well as beauty
— are prime considerations in every Bigelow Carpet designed
for use in public areas. Special designs, colors and textures
available. If you plan an installation, consult Bigelow's
Carpet specialists about colors, patterns, weaves, at prices
you can afford. No charge for this service. Contact Bigelow
through the nearest sales office or by writing to Bigelow Con-
tract Department, 140 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y:
Bigelow sales offices are located in the following cities: Atlanta, Ga.; Boston, Mass.;
Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Denver,
Colo.; Detroit, Mich.; Hartford, Conn.; High Point, N.C.; Kansas City, Mo.; Los
Angeles, Calif.; Minneapolis, Minn.; New York, N. Y ; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.;
St. Louis, Mo.; San Francisco, Calif.; Seattle, Wash.
Bigelow
RUGS ‘CARPETS
SINCE 1825
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 95
96
Even though an architect may combine his рго-
fessional skill with today's superior fire-resistant
materials, human error will still cause fires. And
the critical areas for protection of life and prop-
erty in fire are the building’s passages and stair-
wells—the important exits during emergencies.
With the cooperation of Underwriters’ Labora-
tories, Overly has pioneered in product develop-
ment to protect these exits—doors that...
Open to everything but fire
The Overly Fire Barrier with Fire Exit Hardware
was the first pair of doors U/L tested and ap-
proved for openings where panic conditions
might occur. Not only does the Fire Barrier con-
tain fire and keep exits open for up to three hours,
but its hardware opens easily under light manual
pressure. To ensure maximum safety and secure
minimum insurance rates for your building, you'll
want to discuss Fire Barriers with Overly—The
Architect's Craftsman.
Query
Manufacturing Company
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
St. Louis 19, Missouri
Los Angeles 39, California
For a complete reference on Fire Barriers, send for the eight-page 1961 Overly Fire Doorater.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
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Fire Barriers
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 97
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pioneered by Homasote — saves you
We have been pioneering in Dry-Wall Construction since
1916. It is now acknowledged that Homasote is the finest
Dry-Wall material—and that the Big Sheets (up to 8’ x 14’)
save you time and money, eliminate all problems and extra
costs arising from taping, nail-popping, moldings and
can save money at some point of construction — and still give
the home owner higher quality, finer appearance and more
lasting satisfaction. And —be sure you always have avail-
able a copy of the latest edition of the 72-page Homasote
Handbook. Kindly address Department D-4.
about Homasote Р.В. Components
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The major facts about each Homasote Product are presented
in briefest terms—on a colorful Nutshell Card (as pictured bec wh
above). Handy reference tables—such as maximum spans #702
for floor joists—are included. Ask your Lumber Dealer—or (with GVS
write us—for a set of these cards. Each shows you where you exterior)
Ask your Lumber Dealer HOMASOTE COMPANY
TRENTON 3, NEW JERSEY
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about Vacation and Small Homes, Farm and Utility
Buildings constructed by the new Versitruss-Panel
System. Also—ask about Homasote's Vacation and
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 99
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A MAJOR
BREAKTHROUGH
IN COOLING & HEATING
ARKLA'S
NEW25-TON :
GAS CHILLER- HEATER
Here it is — the revolutionary new Arkla
absorption unit that heats and cools without
a steam producing boiler or converter. Gas-
fired burners in the generator section ener-
gize the system for absorption cooling, or for
heating. It's the perfect system for modern
year 'round gas air conditioning.
INSTANTLY HEATS AND COOLS AUTO-
MATICALLY < HEATS WATER WITHOUT
A BOILER « COOLS WATER WITHOUT A
COMPRESSOR < REQUIRES NO LUBRICA-
TION < SEALED FOR LIFE, REQUIRING
MINIMUM MAINTENANCE 4 MAINTAINS
SAME CAPACITY FOR THE LIFE OF THE
UNIT 4 HAS NO MOVING PARTS IN THE
HEATING AND COOLING CYCLE « FIRST
MEDIUM OR LARGE TONNAGE AIR CON-
DITIONER THAT HEATS.
Truly revolutionary...investigate for your
next building project the new Arkla DF-3000
Gas-Fired All Year" Chiller-Heater.
For details contact your local Gas Company.
Or write Arkla Air Conditioning Corpora-
tion, 812 Main Street, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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REFLECT YOUR GOOD JUDGEMENT
BOTH INSIDE AND OUT
Windows are the only product (except doors, and we make them, too) that reflect
your good judgement from both inside and outside of the structure. That’s why
its doubly important to make the right choice. RIMCO has considered this aspect
in designing all of its six window styles . . . to give you a beauty bonus. Clean,
crisp lines outside . . . subtly contoured inside, you'll find that these window units
constructed of selected ponderosa pine add extra meaning to the word “window.”
For RIMCO furnishes complete Wood Window Units . . . sash set in frames, hard-
ware and weatherstripping applied, wood bead glazed, and exterior trim applied.
All your contractor does is set them, apply interior trim and finish.
Each style has a generous size range to give you fenestration freedom. And, all
meet the applicable U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Standards.
ERENUEG CR
ROCK ISLAND MILLWORK COMPANY
FACTORY DIVISION, P. O. BOX ?7
Rock Island, lllinois
A request on your letterhead will bring you, without cost, the new ARCHI-
TECTURAL TRACING DETAIL SET. Also see our catalog in Sweet’s Files.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 101
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300,000 square feet of exhibit space. National Tube supplied pipe used for air conditioning, plumbing, апа sewerage.
How to plumb 51 acres of floor space
There’s enough plumbing in Cobo Hall, Detroit’s new exhibition building, to serve
a city of 70,000 people. It took more than 13 miles of USS National Galvanized
Steel Pipe, 2%” to 12" diameter, just to connect the fixtures, lavatories, showers,
drinking fountains and drains. In addition to four gargantuan exhibition areas,
Cobo Hall has 32 meeting rooms, a cafeteria, a coffee shop, and a banquet hall
that doubles as a ballroom. USS National Pipe air conditions the 10-acre struc-
ture... enough of it to handle 10,000 gallons of water a minute. Even the sewer-
age system soil lines contain USS National Pipe. The architect specified steel
pipe because almost all piping had to be suspended from the ceiling. Steel pipe,
with its high-strength-to-weight ratio, was faster and cheaper to install and re-
quired fewer hangers. С) Whether you're planning a one-roomer or the world’s
largest, it pays to specify USS National Pipe. You'll get fast delivery of top quality
pipe inall sizes for power, heat, utility lines, or air conditioning and you'll also get
prompt technical assistance from the most qualified men in the field. National
Tube salesmen are backed by the engineers and research scientists from our
research laboratory. Just call or write National Tube Division, United States Steel,
525 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh 30, Pa. USS and NATIONAL are registered trademarks
tree CIENT National Tube
Division of
United States Steel
Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Distributors
United States Steel Export Company, New York
Finishing up a weldment on the water cooling section of Cobo Hall's air conditioning. The system's output is equal to that of 7,000 window units. ›
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Trouble-free Donley Incinerators
were specified for this large residential
development in Philadelphia.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
...ın A Dody
INCINERATOR
Once it was a delicious red apple; now it's a gar-
bage problem! But garbage and rubbish can be
deposited any time and destroyed almost imme- .
diately in a Donley Incinerator. To eliminate
large accumulations of garbage and rubbish,
Donley Automatic Safety Burners provide fre-
quent small fires at regular intervals. This Donley
principle of frequent burning minimizes smoke,
odor and fly-ash. It also avoids the destructive heat
of large fires that damages incinerators and flues.
Donley incinerator designs and equipment meet
operating standards established by leading fire in-
surance companies, testing laboratories and most
municipal building codes. Write today for your
Donley Incinerator Catalog or see it in Sweet's.
THE BROTHERS COMPANY
13972 Miles Avenue Cleveland 5, Ohio
To the static viewer, pattern, texture, апа
intimacy of scale are felt even when they are not
recognized. In the doctor’s clinic by architect
Paul Hayden Kirk, the result at the lowest measure
of recognition is a pleasing environment. At its
highest, it is an awareness of art. The means to both:
a skilled architect, a timeless building material.
1520 18th St., N.W. Washington, D.C.
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Suspended stairway in administration building of
leading manufacturer relies on the supporting
strength of Type 18-8 Nickel Stainless Steel rods.
Eero Saarinen and Associates. Engi-
Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. Fabricator:
Moynahan Bronze Company, Flatrock, Michigan.
Architect:
neers:
DENIS
How to create floor-to-floor beauty
with Nickel Stainless Steel
When you enter the lobby of this build-
ing, your eye is captured by the graceful
beauty of the suspended stairway.
This stairway utilizes the strength
and natural beauty of Nickel Stainless
Steel to achieve a design that is original
and fresh. It's a functional design that
blends together massive granite treads,
wood handrails, and supporting Nickel
Stainless rods and wire, to produce
floor-to-floor beauty.
An important design note is Nickel
Stainless Steel. Thanks to the high
strength of this material, the architect
was able to use graceful, decorative
¥g-inch Nickel Stainless rods to support
the entire structure. The wood hand-
rails, which seem to just flow up the
stairway, are simply clamped onto
these extra-strong Nickel Stainless
rods.
This is certainly a beautiful
example of what the high mechanical
properties of Nickel Stainless Steel can
mean to architects who strive for the
modern in design. The high strength of
this material — plus its high modulus of
elasticity — mean that architects can use
lighter sections and fewer pounds of
Nickel Stainless to get the same
strength they would with other, less
durable metals.
The result is a graceful structure
practically free of maintenance. That’s
because Nickel Stainless Steel never
needs painting or transparent protec-
tive coating. No architectural metal is
more widely used for resistance to cor-
rosion and pitting.
What are the architectural forms of
Nickel Stainless Steel? How can you
make the most of them? Get the an-
swers in the 32-page booklet, “Architec-
tural Uses of the Stainless Steels.”
Visit our booth (#77) at the А.А. Building
Products Exhibition in Philadelphia.
THE INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY, INC.
67 Wall Street до, New York 5, N. Y.
INCO NICKEL
NICKEL MAKES STAINLESS STEEL PERFORM BETTER LONGER
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A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMICAL,
HIGH EFFICIENCY COOLING FOR COMMERCIAL—
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS ...
UNCHALLENGED COOLING PERFORMANCE...
52 SERIES CONDENSING UNITS
Outwardly beautiful and pleasing to the eye, inwardly rugged and power-
ful, new Janitrol 52 Series provides low-cost central cooling with matchless
reliability and efficiency. Here are some of the many ways new Janitrol
52 Series condensing units are demonstrating their excellence . . .
In Performance . . . condensing coils have greater area to dissipate more
heat and to provide higher efficiency. Operation with outside tempera-
tures as high as 125?F.
In Styling . . . modern, simple and functional cabinet that will be in the
best of taste in any landscape plan. Finished in beautiful, durable, weather-
resistant, automotive-type enamel.
In Economy . . . powerful, top-mounted fan draws in quantities of cooler
ground air over the condensing coil, which is shaded from the sun's heat
by louvers.
In Quietness . . . compressor and fan are unusually quiet in operation.
Cabinet is acoustically treated with a weatherproof, sound-absorbent
material.
In Safety . . . upflow exhaust protects nearby plants from hot blasts . . .
enclosing grilles safeguard pets and children.
In Service . . . all components are easily accessible. Service panels may
be removed without affecting operation, to make checks while unit is in
full operation.
A.R.l. CERTIFIED
Full А.К І. certification is your assurance this equipment meets
or exceeds standards of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Institute. A five-year written warranty backs up your choice.
A COMPLETE LINE TO MEET ALL NEEDS...
CAPACITIES FROM 22,200 TO 110,200 BTU/HR.
AIR-COOLED SUMMER AND YEAR 'ROUND
COMFORT SYSTEMS TO MEET ALL NEEDS
Janitrol Add-On
Cooling System
With Janitrol Add-On
Cooling, most апу
forced air furnace can
be easily adapted to
circulate cool, filtered
air to every room in the
home. The Janitrol
evaporator coil is in-
stalled in furnace out-
let duct and connected
to the properly-sized 52 Series condensing
unit. The existing furnace blower and duct
system circulates the cooled, dehumidified
air. Here's full central air conditioning at
low, low cost!
Janitrol Win-Sum-Matic
Year’ ems
ear "Round System Janitrol Schoolroom
A complete central
heating and cooling
unit in a compact,
smartly-styled cabinet
smallerthan mosthome
refrigerators! Features
air-cooledsummer cool-
ing, thrifty gas heat
with Dura-Tube heat-
ing heart, guaranteed
for 20 years! Exclusive
"Season Selector" control allows changing
from heat to cool (or vice versa) in seconds.
No special tools or service call needed.
WRITE TODAY ^ d^ 7o
for complete information on Janitrol heating and cooling systems for your
business needs. Remember—architects and engineers can specify . . . and HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING
dealers can recommend and install Janitrol equipment with complete confi-
dence it will provide the finest, most carefree performance possible.
Cooling and Heating
Janitrol offers a self-con-
tained room heating and
ventilating system (with
optional cooling) that
features perimeter-type,
draftless air distribution.
Installation economies
are noteworthy (savings
up to 60% over large cen-
tral systems). For new
schools, additions and
modernization.
New Janitrol J-Line Self-Contained
Air Conditioners
The Janitrol J-Line models are an economical
answer to cooling needs. In one compact unit
are the blower, compressor and evaporator
coils. Operation is remarkably quiet. May be
used with ducts or as free discharge. Installs
through walls in crawl space, in attic or other
limited access locations.
A Division of Midland-Ross Corporation
Columbus 16, Ohio * In Canada: Moffats Lid., Toronto 15
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For details of home installations, see å
Sweet's Light Construction File, 11c/Be.
YOU DESIGN homes that are more livable,
more salable, when you specify built-in telephone outlets
with wiring concealed. Telephone planning preserves
room beauty, provides for a family’s future needs.
Bell Telephone System
NEW ADDITIONS
that make your best choice
FLINTKOTE INSUL
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Tuterlocking оён, including
Painted Bevel, for joist and beam
construction aligns roof deck bet-
ter, installs easier, improves in-
sulation, distributes loads better.
Typical Flat Slab Construction
with Structo-Form
CONCRETE
STRUCTO-FORM
TEMPORARY
WOOD SUPPORTS
Stracte- Form provides uni-
form, lightweight, strong build-
ing planks for flat slab or re-
inforced concrete construction,
producing a handsome finished
ceiling.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
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Box Sub-Purlin Roof Deck '
Assembly
INSULROCK
| SUPPORTING
| JOIST
Chamfered Edges of im-
proved Flo-Easy design for sub-
purlin construction increase re-
sistance to uplift, make for con-
tinuous stronger joints.
Gor Sab- Parlin assembly
gives new flexibility to open con-
struction design, reduces costs.
STEEL FRAMING
-INSUL-FORM FORMBOARDS
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Tusull- Jorn” offers great |
advantages as formboards in |
poured gypsum or lightweight
concrete decks. 2хг«&-“/онед= bring you Insul-
rock in five striking pastel colors
—blue, yellow, green, beige, and
pink—an Insulrock exclusive!
added to the outstanding aduautages of regular
INSULROCK (features such as these:
Insulating Insulrock maintains
a K factor of 0.51.
Beautéfal Insulrock has ran-
dom-textured surface with exclu-
sive Insul-Glo 70* finish that
makes possible light reflectance
of 60-70%.
*Atrademarkof The Flintkote Company
rteoustical Insulrock traps їр
to 85% of incident noise.
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Special Edge олан
and Variety of Standard Sizes
give you the right Insulrock roof
deck for every job.
Strength & Weatherability
of Insulrock protects roof decks
against rot, fungi, and termites
— strength assured well above
ultimate load requirements.
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North Judson, Indiana;
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April 1961
111
“G-E Remote-Control Wiring has saved money since the day it went into this building in 1953,” .
says Mr. Donnelly, standing in front of 3-story, block-long office building, Menands, N. Y.
“G-E Remote-Control Wiring saved us $20,561 in
this N. Y. Telephone building - on installation alone!"
... Mr. H. J. Donnelly, Supervising
Electrical Engineer New York
Telephone Company, Albany, N.Y.
“We compared General Electric
Remote Control with an ordinary
switching system that would give
us the kind of lighting control we
wanted," says Mr. Donnelly.“ We
were surprised to find that, in addi-
tion to its other advantages, the
G-E low-voltage system cost $20,561
less to install!
“On top of the initial savings, we
reduced our operating costs, because
G-E master switching makes it easy
for maintenance crews to turn ON
only those lights needed, rather than
lighting up whole floors. Switches
at convenient locations save our men
extra steps, too.
“These savings were all in addi-
tion to the original reason we con-
sidered Remote-Control. That was
extra safety in controlling the
480Y/277-volt power system we
chose for its saving in branch cir-
cuit copper. Remote-Control relays
in the ceiling control the 277-volt
lighting circuits, so there’s only a
low, 24 volts at the switches. Of
course, the lightweight, 24-volt
switch wiring makes it easier to
relocate office partitions, too. And
the elimination of switch-loop volt-
age drops that can cut the life and
efficiency of lamps, is still another
feature.”
General Electric would appreciate
the opportunity of working with you
on the design of a Remote-Control
Wiring System tailored to fit your
particular needs. Write Commercial
Engineer, General Electric Com-
pany, Wiring Device Department,
Providence 7, Rhode Island.
Progress ls Our Most Important Product
GENERAL QD) ELECTRIC
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*Douse the lights you don’t need!" is
standard procedure for maintenance
crew, in building from 5:00 to 11:00
p.m. G-E Remote Control makes it easy.
G-E master selector switches at ends
and center of each floor control lighting
separately for each % floor. Building
contains 2000 fluorescent lamps.
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* INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
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= 4 Including 36 Functional Colors
| and Instructions for their Use
If you are responsible for the specification of color in any of these six fields, these Colorizer
Functional Color Kits will be an invaluable aid. They were prepared by a nationally-respected color
authority, and show in precise detail how color can be used in these 6 types of institutions—
not only to provide tasteful decoration but to promote morale and efficiency, better seeing, safety,
and improved employee and public relations. Each kit illustrates and specifies exact colors for
various interior and exterior areas — and explains why. The 36 recommended paint colors are
coded for easy selection, and reflectance percentage is given for each color. Colorizer Paints
are available throughout the U.S. and Canada. Choose from easier-to-use Colorizer "Instant
Paint" for interiors . . . highest quality enamels . . . floor paints . . . wood finishes . . . long-lasting
exterior finishes.
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COLORIZER ASSOCIATES: Bennett’s, Salt Lake City & Los Angeles • Blue Ribbon Paint Co., Wheeling, W. Va. • Walter М. Boysen
Co., Oakland & Los Angeles, Calif. « Brooklyn Paint and Varnish Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. e James Bute Co., Houston, Texas » Great
Company
Western Paint Mfg. Corp., Kansas City, Mo. • Jewel Paint & Varnish Co., Chicago, Illinois e Kehler-McLister Paint Co., Denver,
Colo. e W. Н. Sweney & Co., St. Paul, Minn. • Vane-Calvert Paint Co., St. Louis, Mo. • Warren Paint and Color Co., Nashville, Address
Tenn. © George D. Wetherill & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, Penna. « The Imperial Flo-Glaze Paints, Ltd., Toronto, Canada « Jenson
& Nicholson, Ltd., London, England. City State
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 113
All the air problems of this
solved with oze system
Unique requirements of Montana State structure
point up AAF’s capability for complete air engineering
HEN you decide to house the depart-
ments of Zoology, Wild Life, Micro-
biology, Bacteriology and Public Health in
one building, you know that some special
and unusual air problems must be solved.
The air in Montana State’s Health
Sciences Building had to be cleaned, cooled,
heated and moved—all in varying degrees
to meet the special needs of animal environ-
ment and isolation rooms, surgery rooms,
sterile transfer rooms and research labs.
The job called for many different types
of component equipment plus the knowl-
edge and experience to coordinate its func-
tioning into one custom-engineered system.
The building planners turned to AAF —
the one company that provides all the major
components for an engineered air system.
Result: one system of completely condi-
tioned air . . . one responsibility for its
performance.
Booklet 518 describes the complete line
of AAF component products. For a free
copy, address Mr. Richard Smith, American
Air Filter Company, Inc., 259 Central Ave-
nue, Louisville, Kentucky.
ДАГ А женси» Air Fitter
BETTER AIR
IS OUR BUSINESS
AIR CLEANING: (Atmospheric Dust) AAF electronic air cleaners, viscous impinge-
ment filters, dry-type filters, engine & compressor filters. (Process Dust) electrostatic
precipitators, wet-type collectors, dry-type collectors, fabric arresters. AIR CONDI-
TIONING, HEATING & VENTILATING: Herman Nelson air conditioning unit
ventilators, unit ventilators, portable heaters; Kennard/Nelson dual-duct air condition-
ing units, multi-zone air conditioning units, packaged central station air handling units,
sprayed-coil dehumidifiers, fan-coil units, packaged liquid chillers, cooling towers,
evaporative condensers, direct-expansion coils, water coils, steam coils, unit blowers,
industrial exhausters, centrifugal fans, unit heaters, radiation products; Illinois traps,
valves, specialties, heating systems and controls.
a Italics denote products used in Health Sciences Building
HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING, Montana State University, Missoula, Montana.
Architects & Engineers: Witwer & Price, Missoula; Structural! Engineers: Lyerla
& Peden, Spokane, Washington; Electrical Engineers: James F. Parr, Hamilton,
Montana; Mechanical Contractor: Reher Plumbing & Heating, Helena, Montana.
university building
from ORE SOUTCE...
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This 10" pipe of Geon is extruded by Scepter CMS dir. Ltd., onmi Because of low temperatures, it is insulated "e Fiberglas and a thin
coat of aluminum. It has operated successfully through winter temperatures as low as —30°F. B.F.Goodrich Chemical Company supplies the rigid Geon vinyl.
Pipe of rigid Geon lightens
sewage system spans, cuts costs
'This picture shows how city engineers of Edmonton,
Alberta, solved a dual-design problem and saved money,
too. Sewage piping was to be carried over rough terrain
by spans also designed for pedestrian use. However,
the extra weight of ordinary pipe would have required
heavy structures, extra cost. By utilizing lightweight,
10" diameter pipe made of rigid Geon vinyl, the engi-
neers were able to make the spans far less complex,
far less costly.
At the same time, the pipe of Geon eliminates internal
adhesion of sludge, sand or other material— eliminating
B.EGoodrich Chemical Company
a division of The B.F.Goodrich Company
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the cost of reaming pipe periodically to keep the system
operating. Installation is fast and easy, too. Engineers
are so satisfied that they are planning additional lines
of even larger diameter pipe of rigid Geon vinyl.
Here’s another way pipe of Geon cuts costs, makes
possible new and improved solutions to problems.
Geon is improving applications and making possible
new products in many industries. For more information,
write Dept. ND-2 B.F.Goodrich Chemical Company,
3135 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 15,
Ohio. In Canada: Kitchener, Ont.
Built to live up
to the buildings
you design
1060F, one of many 1000 SERIES models selected by Union Carbide for their New York headquarters Photo by Peter Blake
IT'S 1000 SERIES BY GF...the desk styled specifically to complement today's smart business
interiors. Its all-flush surfaces and clean, uncluttered lines are the result of close collaboration between
one of America’s leading architectural firms and GF's own designers. And, of course, it's built to GF's
exacting quality standards. Before you select any desk, see 1000 SERIES at your nearby GF branch or
dealer. Or write Dept. AR-13for our new color brochure. The General Fireproofing Co., Youngstown 1, Ohio.
BUSINESS FURNITURE
Carey Built-Up Roof, Spec. 3-0
with Carey Thermo-Bord Roof Deck
Carey Thermo-Bord
Exterior Walls
ha а аав 4.2 Careystone Corrugated
Carey Fire-Chex 325 Shingles
Deck Tile Juncture with Edge Cap
Sealed by Carey Elastite Expansion Joint
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Observers familiar with air traffic expansion predict that
more than 2000 jet transports, each carrying approx-
imately 200 passengers, will fill the airways by the end
Kahn & Jacobs, ал. a., design an of the decade of the sixties. To these transport
flights must be added a growing number of
private passenger planes which even today
teta more than 75,000. These figures do not
take into account the non-jet flights which
airlines are expanding to serve an increasing
number of communities.
Carey Thermo-Bord Interior Wall Surface
Ceramic Tile Deck
over Carey Built-Up Roof, Spec. PR-1-A
laid on Reinforced
Concrete Slab
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In view of this prospect of burgeoning passenger traffic, office, anytime. Carey materials specifi- f
through airports which are barely adequate for present- cations as incorporated in the Kahn &!
day needs, the architectural firm Kahn & Jacobs, A.I.A., Jacob details have been assembled in a
of New York City designed their prototype air terminal convenient file folder for
under a commission from Carey. your personal use. May
we send you a copy?
The details of this Kahn & Jacobs project suggest uses Write Dept. AR-461, a 4
for a number of Carey building products. The purpose postcard will do xeu yum dar
of the detail drawings is to propose solutions for similar А
problems which could show up on the boards in апу The Philip Carey Mfg. Company Cincinnati 15, Ohio
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Good design is apparent in this handsome
building. And it extends to the small but
important details, too . . . like the attrac-
tive, functional towel cabinets, for example.
When YOU specify continuous cotton
towel cabinets for washrooms, you auto-
matically provide your clients with a num-
ber of plus values: Lowered janitorial costs
This beautiful recessed unit is but
satin-finished stainless steel and
120 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
For complete information, write to Linen Supply Association on your letterhead.
You'll receive this free, fully illustrated Planning-for-Cloth Kit which includes
specifications for recessed and other continuous cloth towel cabinets.
& Laundry, Lincoln.
. . . fewer plumbing repairs . . . less litter
. . . less fire hazard. So plan for continuous
towel cabinets. Your local Linen Supplier
will install the units and keep them sup-
plied with fresh, real cotton toweling.
Yes, specify continuous towel cabinets for
the job on your board right now... . your
clients will appreciate it.
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one of the many designs available. Linen Su |
Itis solidly constructed of 22 gauge, re nt Amaron
carries 50 yards of cloth toweling. and National Cotton Council * 22 West Monroe Street, Chicago З
Bankers Life Insurance Company
of Nebraska, Lincoln. Architects:
Unthank & Unthank. Consulting
Architects: Shreve Lamb & Har-
mon. Serviced by Sanitary Towel
Spruce up the о!а... Accent the new
Luminous ceilings, luminaires, louvers, refractors, diffusers and
modules made with Monsanto Lustrex Perma Tone Styrene have
given years of service as a dramatic and effective source of light in
hundreds of buildings of all types—both new and old.
In major renovation projects, these lighting installations are an
economical and easy way to brighten up dark corners with strong,
yet softly diffused illumination. Over-high ceilings can be brought
down and unsightly beams and pipes can be masked behind a ceiling
of bright new beauty. In new construction, lighting installations made
with Lustrex Perma Tone give you a highly flexible means of creating
unique decorative effects and accounts.
Fixtures made of Lustrex Perma Tone deliver uniform surface
brightness and excellent color stability. Exceeding IES-NEMA joint
specifications for ultraviolet light stabilized styrene, Perma Tone
assures the whitest of whites or a wide range of molded-in clear,
permanent colors. Dimensionally stable, they are also light in weight
for easy handling, installation and maintenance. To make sure you
get this combination of performance at an economical cost, specify
installations made with Monsanto Lustrex Perma Tone.
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Heartland Office Building, National Commercial Bank & Trust Co. of Albany, N .Y. Electrical TEN eer: Walter - 5
$. Stewman, Albany, N.Y. General Contractor: Rosch Bros. Electrical Contractor: H. A. Collman Electrical Co., Inc.
MONSANTO bpesicner in PLASTICS
If you would like additional data on
Lustrex Perma Tone in lighting, and
the names of manufacturers of fix-
tures molded of Lustrex Perma Tone,
send coupon below to Monsanto
Chemical Company, Plastics Divi-
sion, Room 818, Springfield 2, Mass.
Monsanto
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gives a modern, airy facade to
Penn State's new engineering building
This dynamic facade of the new Hammond
Engineering Building at Pennsylvania State
University proves that curtain-wall design
can be free and individual. Working with
standard LUPTON components, architects
created a building of personality, purpose,
and warm simplicity.
Of course, aluminum gives strength without
excess mass to curtain-wall construction.
But aluminum curtain wall by LUPTON
gives the extra ingredient of dependability.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Dependability in things like perfect fit and
expert installation —things which only our
long experience with aluminum can assurethe
buyer. Dependability like LUPTON's often
spells the difference between an economical
and costly construction job.
To look deeper into LUPTON advantages,
see Sweet's (Sections 3 and 17) for the
LUPTON Curtain Wall and Window cata-
logs. Then talk with your local LUPTON
man, or write us for details.
Hammond Engineering Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Architects and Engi-
Photograph by 0. V. D. Hubbard
neers: Howell Lewis Shay & Associates, Philadelphia, Pa. Contractor: S. H. Evert Co., Inc., Bloomsburg, Pa.
Comfort Conditioning.* LUPTON air-to-air
heat-pump, electrically operated, puts a
personalized cooling, heating, and ventilating
system right in the curtain wall ... provides
year 'round comfort with individual tem-
perature control. *Trade-Mar k
LUPTO
Main Office and Plant: 700 East Godfrey Avenue, Philadelphia 24, Pa., West Coast Office and Plant
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Raised Floor System. LUPTON aluminum
raised floor supports electronic data process-
ing equipment above normal floor level. Con-
ceals cables and air ducts while providing
100% accessibility to under floor space.
®
MICHAEL FLYNN
OTHER LUPTON PRODUCTS THAT MAY SOLVE PROBLEMS
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Engineered Windows. LUPTON "Master"
windows in double-hung, projected or case-
ment types—used in curtain walls or equally
well in masonry construction. Weatherstrip-
ping optional for all types.
MANUFACTURING COMPANY
: City of Industry (Los Angeles County), California
SALES OFFICES: Stockton, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York City; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas. Representatives in other principal cities.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 123
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BARRETT DIVISION
40 Rector Street, New York 6, N. Y.
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hemical
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Ideal floor for
use over concrete
When you use Bruce Laminated
Blocks you add a lot of warmth,
beauty and comfort to your homes.
The three plies of close-grained
Southern Oak keep out concrete
slab chill and dampness, yet pro-
vide foot-cushioning comfort. Heat
and pressure bonding produce a
highly stable unit and the famous
Bruce factory finish saves labor,
time and expense. Choose either
light or dark finish . . . or mix them
for really distinctive floors! Over
wood subfloor or old floor use
Bruce Blocks, strip-type for nail-
ing. Write for color booklet. You’ll
find our catalog in Sweet’s Files.
E. L. BRUCE CO.
GHUCE) MEMPHIS 1, TENN.
World’s largest manufacturer
of hardwood flooring
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specify
quality and
performance!
narrow
concealed
exit
devices
Von Duprin Narrow Concealed Exit Devices |
are reversible and spring-actuated . . . built CHECK THESE NC FEATURES
throughout for years of dependable service. | e stainless steel, aluminum (US-27) or bronze
Vertical rods slide quietly within hollow | in standard finishes
stiles. Smart outside trim adds to the modern * reinforced crossbar
e drop-forged internal parts and exterior
design of every narrow stile installation. : control
Call in your Von Duprin Exit Specialist— i * all parts non-ferrous metal
your quality builders hardware distributor || ; * reversible—for doors of either hand
— for full details on “‘the safe way out” with | * distinctive outside trim
Narrow Concealed Devices.
the
safe way
VON DUPRIN DIVISION * VONNEGUT HARDWARE CO. * INDIANAPOLIS 25, IND.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
In nature and in the new Forecast Series by Mills the combination of simple elements creates
unlimited design possibilities. Forecast frees the designer to develop a unique movable wall
system for every client. Write for details: THE NEW FORECAST SERIES BY NIIL.I.SS
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Mills Company • 948 Wayside Road * Cleveland 10, Ohio
Quiet!
The Weil-McLain Type “J”? Gas Boiler
is a valuable aid in conserving space—
not only because of compact design but
because amazingly quiet operation per-
mits a wide choice of boiler room loca-
tion.
The ribbon burners used on Type “J”
boilers are designed for quieter opera-
tion, assuring noiseless ignition and
flame extinction. A new flame carry-
over principle provides quick and silent
light-off with a minimum number of
standing pilots. A gas valve with a slow
opening feature is furnished as stand-
ard equipment and further contributes
to quiet operation.
GAS BOILERS The J” Boiler has no motors or fans
which in other types of boilers are sources
A.G.A. gross output: 8
480—4,320 MBH of noise and demand heavy use of elec-
tricity! It does not need a high chimney
which conflicts with modern architec-
ture...products of combustion can be
expelled with only a five foot vent riser
beyond the draft hood openings.
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128 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
NEW CURRENTS
IN
JAPANESE
ARCHITECTURE
by John Ely Burchard
Continuing à practice which by
now verges on tradition, Burchard,
once more returning from abroad,
offers some critical observations on
the ferment in contemporary Jap-
anese architecture. He finds that
Japan, with “some of the best mod-
ern buildings in the world," faces
the same architectural dilemmas as
does the Occident, and expends the
same nervous and creative energy
in resolving them. She may, how-
ever, be nearer success in some
areas.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD APRIL 1961
Most of the remaining beauty of Japanese life is a
life that comes from the past. It seems to be under
constant assault by the Western present and it is, I
suppose, steadily yielding to the worst manifesta-
tions of our Western habits. Unfortunately, change
is here, as elsewhere, always identified with the good
and the imaginative and the young and the free, and
conservation or maintenance of tradition with the
bad and the dull and the old and the chained. This
may often be so, but it is not always so, and Japan
finds the new way harder than we, for it is less cer-
tain that change is always for the better. Yet obso-
lescence may be even more rapid than for us. It is a
country where Tange at the age of 47 has to recon-
cile himself to being talked of as a member of the
Old Guard, along with Mayekawa (55), Murata (54)
and Kosaka (48), and where professors, instead of
being old men with beards as our imagination might
suggest, have to retire at 55.
Yet it is the *ancient" architects who have built
and are building some of the best modern buildings
in the world, completely reconciled to the modern
prineiples of Western design, especially those of Le
Corbusier, yet also completely Japanese. These build-
ings seem at ease with the remains of the Japanese
past and the needs of the Japanese future.
There are many bad new buildings in Japan.
Many of them are imitative, tawdry or dull. But so
there are in America and England and France and
Italy. In Japan, as elsewhere, there are also bold and
fresh and fine ones, derivative perhaps, but imita-
tive never. And if some young designers, in Japan
as well as here, seem now to think it is wrong ever
to be derivative even from oneself, we can only
be thankful that that was not the attitude in older
Attica, Persia, Egypt, Burgundy, Florence or
Bath.
In sum, it seems to me that the best Japanese con-
temporary architecture ranks with the best in the
world. I think it has related itself to its past more
successfully than the contemporary work of equally
self-conscious Milan. We shall discuss some exam-
ples and defend the thesis thereby, and perhaps also
hazard some speculations as to why this is so, if it
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New Currents in Japanese Architecture
is so. I hope it is, for it may then mean that con-
temporary architecture will offer to Japan the pro-
tection of an old culture and the amelioration of a
new, without compromise but with sensitivity and
restraint. This is essential if the beauty that was
Japanese is to survive at all.
But it may not guarantee survival. The excesses
that run through some current Western architectural
work will not go unnoticed and unimitated in Japan.
If a Japanese architect ever decides to be a Manner-
ist or a Brutalist, he will outdo Rudolph or the
Smithsons. This may even have happened already.
Disease is carried rapidly by the jets and by a world
population that is always on the move.
20th Century Beginnings
We must not forget that the modern movement had
an early start in Japan. Frank Lloyd Wright cannot
be overlooked; the Imperial Hotel is still one of his
magnificent works. It is sad to know that its owners,
having marred it by a large, vulgar and up-to-date
addition, now want to tear it down, claiming that
it is unprofitable. There seems little chance that it
can be saved by being made a national monument.
Save for its anti-earthquake engineering and its
scale, the Imperial Hotel was not particularly Jap-
anese. Indeed, it was more like an elegant Midway
Gardens transplanted to Tokyo, employing Japanese
lava, to be sure, and taking advantage of the skill
of Japanese craftsmen. On the other hand, the pool,
the foliage, and the wall materials were combined in
a way utterly consonant with the Japanese spirit.
Though the present fine pieces by Japanese archi-
tects owe their origin most directly to Le Corbusier
(or less frequently to Mies), we must not forget that
they could see, in their capital city, an important
example of what was to influence European think-
ing, and that when they were very young. Tange,
for example, was nine when the Imperial Hotel was
completed, Mayekawa 17. Wright left other and less
famous examples in Japan: the Fukuhara house in
Hakone, the Hayashi house in Tokyo, both in the
Taliesin wood style; the wood-and-plaster Jiyu Ga-
kuin School, also at Tokyo, which was more obvi-
ously Japanese in character; and the unachieved
Odawara Hotel project for Nagoya.
Wright’s designs for the Imperial Hotel had, in
the first instance, been prepared at Taliesin, and he
brought them to Tokyo in his baggage. At the same
time he brought a 30-year-old Czech, Antonin Ray-
mond. Raymond had come to America in 1910, when
he was 21; had worked for six years in the office of
Cass Gilbert; had joined Wright in 1917. Towards
the completion of the Imperial Hotel, he set out his
own shingle and practiced in Japan for the next 16
continued on page 184
130 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Y. Futagawa
Harumi Apartments, Tokyo; Kunio Mayekawa, architect
KUNIO MAYEKAWA
The man who has been most closely in-
fluenced by Le Corbusier is obviously
Kunio Mayekawa, 55, currently presi-
dent of the Japanese Architectural As-
sociation. He worked with Corbu in
1928-30 on the Savoye House and the
Swiss Pavilion. He followed this by
working with Raymond from 1930 to
1935. He is one of the three Japanese
collaborators entrusted with the execu-
tion of Le Corbusier's design for the
National Museum of Western Art (see
p. 142). Moreover, he has been an ac-
tive exponent of CIAM. With Ernesto
Rogers, he was one of the few who tried
to stop the demobilization of this influ-
ential group at Otterlo.
It is possible to observe Mayekawa's
as yet uncompleted development over a
range of buildings from the Prefectural
Hall at Okayama of 1957 through the
Setagaya Public Hall,
Tokyo;
Kunio Mayekawa,
architect
Harumi Apartments in Tokyo of 1958,
the Setagaya Auditorium in Tokyo of
1959, the Kyoto Kaikan of 1960 and the
Tokyo Memorial Hall which is nearing
completion and will be opened in 1961.
In these he has exhibited a steady
growth, an increased emancipation
from the Master, though clearly not a
complete one, a vigor and boldness that
is unexcelled by any of the present
leaders in Japan. The boldness seems
also to breed imperfections, so that al-
most every building has one or more
features that seem insufficiently studied
or that one wishes had been left out
altogether. But this is often the case
for Le Corbusier as well, and it is per-
haps true, as Henri Peyre once remind-
ed me, that the juxtaposition of bold-
ness and freedom with the incomplete
and the jarring is inescapable and that
the truly greatest artists in any field
have never, on the whole, been the per-
fectionists.
The Harumi Apartments at Tokyo, of
1958, are a Japanese version of the
Unité d’Habitation, but they are Japa-
nese despite their generally interna-
tional appearance. They contain none
of the intervening and controversial
services which Le Corbusier introduced
at Marseille. The building offers tier
on tier of low-cost apartments reached
by elevator, stairs and exterior bal-
conies. Three types of floors are pro-
vided, each with a different layout, and
each of these is repeated at every fourth
level. The ceiling heights are lower
than ours, to accord with the size of
the Japanese people. The apartments
are tiny, yet very Japanese. They do
not in effect ask Japanese people living
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in a modern building to abandon long-
established ways of life, which are more
tenacious, naturally enough, in the low-
er-income families, in favor of a pre-
determined modern mode, even though
a little Western furniture is sometimes
introduced. To Westerners who have
seen many apartment blocks of a gen-
erally similar arrangement on the out-
skirts of Paris and elsewhere in Eu-
rope, they may not seem highly original,
and the building is admittedly, if pleas-
antly, stark. As in many of Mayekawa’s
works, there are one or two disturbing
tricks such as the cylindrical enclosures
for stairs which lead to the apartments
on the second floor. But in comparison
with the surrounding housing, the dis-
tinction of Harumi becomes apparent,
and this distinction is, in fact, more
than merely comparative.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 131
MAYEKAWA continued
The Setagaya Public Hall is certain-
ly one of the most powerful and dramat-
ic buildings in modern Japan. The two-
story administration building seems
heavy, because of the size of the col-
umns, the low ceiling heights and the
thickness of the projecting floor slabs.
In itself, it is but a strong version of a
Japanese modern treatment which is
quite common and which has roots
clearly embedded in tradition. It is the
auditorium which offers the drama. One
enters a foyer that seems to be all open
stairs and balconies brilliantly though
massively laid out in concrete. This is
just a preparation for the drama, per-
haps even the melodrama (but in my
book that is not invariably a pejorative
noun), of the auditorium itself. Here
mammoth folded slabs provide struc-
ture, acoustics and decoration in one
132 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
bold statement of roof and wall which
is also stated outside. It is reminiscent
of the Main Assembly Hall at Unesco,
Paris, but more powerful, and I expect
in the end more rational and engaging;
moreover, since it is a lateral treatment
rather than an end treatment, it does
not work to diminish the size of the
humans who are on stage or dais as the
wall at Unesco may seem to do.
The Kyoto Kaikan or Culture Hall
was just being completed when we went
by. It is a less complex building than
the Setagaya, representing much the
same approach as the administrative
building of the latter, but done with
more refinement. It is а very Japanese
building, traditional and modern at the
same time. Here it is the ceiling lights
of the auditorium that seem to have
been a lapse. On the other hand, the
Y. Watanabe
Culture Hall, Kyoto; Kunio Mayekawa, architect
murals of the foyer work with the
thick free-standing columns in a way
which at first seems inappropriate, but
with time becomes very convincing.
Of the Tokyo Memorial Hall, which
will be opened this year, it was possible
only to get a foretaste, studying it in
the office and paddling around the job
in a steady downpour, but it seems
likely to be one of Mayekawa's most vig-
orous buildings. The forms are compli-
cated and diverse and each is powerful,
but the integration is greater than the
drawings or the model suggest. The
deep curved cornice is remarkably ef-
fective and a necessary consolidating
element.
АП in all, it has to be said that
Mayekawa is a considerable architect
and a considerable man.
J.E.B.
New Currents in Japanese Architecture
Memorial Hall, Tokyo; Kunio Mayekawa, architect
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years. A Westerner, doing modern work in Japan,
he was also the leading exponent and interpreter to
the West of the brilliance of Japanese detail and the
excellence of Japanese craftsmanship. He produced
a number of important buildings for the Japanese to
observe, and still builds in Japan.
Finally, we must not overlook the venerable Su-
temi Horiguchi, who at the age of 65 is now some-
what forgotten, but who must be regarded as the
Japanese founder of the Japanese modern move-
ment. He worked in Austria and Germany in the
early 20’s, was a member of the de Stijl and Wendin-
gen movements, visited the Bauhaus, and then built
precursors of the contemporary display.
Town Hall, Kurayoshi; Kenzo Tange, architect
Long Shadows from the West
But the present work owes only a remote and ances-
tral bow to Wright, Raymond and Horiguchi; two
men who have never built in Japan have been the
principal sources of current Japanese inspiration—
Mies the less, Le Corbusier the more. You can go
about Japan with a bagful of terms and manage to
plaster each label on some building, if not on each
man, but the labels will not help much. All the cur-
rents and winds that are buffeting Italian and Amer-
ican architects are buffeting Japanese architects
too. It is not certain, indeed it seems unlikely, that all
of them will stand firm-rooted. But as of now, most
of the excesses are not conspicuously important and
we can understand what is going on without a close
examination of many of the eccentricities.
The Miesian shadow, at least the literal shadow,
is not very long. I did not see a major building
about which one might exclaim in an uncritical mo-
ment, “Ah, that is perhaps by the Master.” One can
imagine many reasons why this may be so. The
available materials do not encourage the steel-and-
glass cage, nor do the needed or desired building
heights. The Japanese have a good deal of common
sense about the relationships of weather and glass.
The fundamental Miesian principles of simplicity,
proportion and order existed in Japan long before
Mies was born, as did the economy of means, the
indeterminism of the plan. Mies may have learned
more from Japan than Japan could learn from him.
So if there are no Miesian buildings of importance,
there are Miesian elements in almost all the impor-
tant buildings. But these are first and foremost Jap-
anese elements, well anchored in tradition. What Mies
may have done for Japan was to restate, and in clear
contemporary terms, the remembered Japanese past.
On the other hand, the reminiscences of Le Cor-
busier cannot be overlooked, for they are at every
hand; again, for the most part they are reminis-
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City Hall, Tokyo; Kenzo Tange, architect
KENZO TANGE
Kenzo Tange is better known in America
than Mayekawa, as he has been ever
since his Peace Center at Hiroshima of
1950-55. But Tange is quite a differ
ent dish of tea—more quiet, more care-
ful, perhaps more sensitive. Unlike
Mayekawa, he seldom makes an ob-
trusive mistake. His designs are less
exuberant, less experimental perhaps,
but that does not mean that they are
unoriginal or impersonal. Indeed, if
dignity and grace and repose and al-
most immaculate design are the hall-
marks of one kind of great architect
(and I think they are), then the works
of Kenzo Tange have been telling us
ever since Hiroshima that he is a great
cences and not imitations. The examples on these
pages should make this apparent.
continued on page 138
184 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
architect.
I must pass quickly by the Town Hall
Kagawa Prefectural Hall,
Takamatsu;
Kenzo Tange,
architect
at Kurayoshi (1955-56), a firm expres-
sion of heavy concrete columns and
beams much in the manner of Mayeka-
wa’s fore-pavilion at Setagaya. This
building bears already on its second
floor a rail which, when studied further
and multiplied many times, blossomed
at Takamatsu as one of Tange’s mas-
terpieces.
We should go quickly also past the
experiment in folded-plate concrete
structure that Tange made for his Con-
vention Hall at Shizuoka in 1957. This
is not so much because it is a bad build-
ing; indeed, it is interesting, and it
shows that Tange can do experimental
work. But having made the experiment,
and shown that he could use this métier,
Tange withdrew from it, and as things
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stand the Shizuoka cannot be taken as
typical of his mature style. Nor can the
Tokyo City Hall of 1957 be said to be
entirely typical, although it comes near-
er to being so. It sits well on the street.
The proportions are good, the play of
the vertical sunshades again the hori-
zontal ones is delicate; but the relation
of principal floor to ground floor, the
pilotis, and the outside stairs are a lit-
tle uneasy for Tange. This is still a
distinguished building, but not his best.
On the other hand, the Kagawa Pre-
fectural Hall at Takamatsu (1958) is
one of Tange’s masterpieces and one of
the great buildings of modern times.
Here are all the things he had been
studying at Kurayoshi and in the Tokyo
City Hall, brought into focus and near
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perfection. The proportions are sure,
the details carefully studied but not
overstudied. The thin cantilevered slabs
work with the wider rails to give the
building a horizontality unmarred by
important vertical elements. The sun
control and the view out are without
flaw. The highlights that catch the ends
of the beams dapple the façade as ele-
gantly as a cluster of triglyphs. The
penthouses have all become a full part-
ner in the architecture, and on the roofs,
stairs and other forms of concrete play
a sculptural role in a way to delight
as well as remind one of Corbu. The
little garden, very Japanese, relates
sensibly to the ground floor of the
building, while the bounding wall has
a sand texture that recalls the raked
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Dentsu Building, Osaka; Kenzo Tange, architect
TANGE continued
beds of Zen. There are all sorts of gay
and unexpected but not distracting de-
tails: the projecting concrete bosses on
the penthouse wall, the open stair of the
portico, the furniture of the roof gar-
den, the touches of colors. If Tange’s
hand ever faltered here, it was in the
foyer. This contains four interesting
abstract ceramic murals by Masanori
Kaniko, and in one or two places the
mezzanine seems an afterthought and
cuts unpleasantly across their line of
sight in a way that one would think
might have been avoided. But this is a
small blemish on a work which is se-
rene, elegant, and incidentally reminis-
cent of a fine pagoda, which it really
does not resemble at all.
After Takamatsu, Tange himself
seems to have felt that this approach
136 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
was exhausted, and we now seem to have
to be concerned with a Tange in transi-
tion. The next two years witnessed ex-
periments such as the Dentsu Building
in Osaka of 1960, culminating in what
is probably going to be another master-
piece, the City Hall at Kurashiki.
The building in Osaka, for an enor-
mous advertising agency, the Dentsu, is
a clear precursor of Kurashiki. Some
of the differences in form between the
Dentsu and Takamatsu are functional
—for example, the blank wall on the
sixth and seventh stories, which dark-
ens the television and radio broadcast-
ing studios. The commercially deter-
mined and unhappy penthouse, on the
other hand, shows that when a good
man entertains vulgarity he may outdo
the vulgar. The slabs and rails, though
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reversed as to dominant dimensions, do
recall the general organization of Ta-
kamatsu which the end stairs rudely in-
terrupt. But the projections are much
less, the windows are becoming less
tall. Most important is a new approach
to the proportions and the joints of
precast elements which would be car-
ried to an end result at Kurashiki.
The City Hall at Kwrashiki was near-
ing completion as I left, and it was
difficult to have an impression of the
total organization of the plan or the
finish of the interior. But it was ap-
parent at once, I thought, that Tange
had struck off another masterpiece and
of quite different metal than that of
Takamatsu—more Corbusian, perhaps,
more formidable, probably less Japa-
nese, surely less traditional. The pic-
tures speak for themselves, апа I call
special attention to the details and the
proportions of the precast slabs.
On the evidence of the buildings,
there can be no doubt that Tange is
one of the outstanding architects of the
world. Though at 47 he may seem to
younger Japanese to be of the Old
Guard, he seems to me rather to be of
a new generation, the transition be-
tween Le Corbusier and whatever is to
come. Transitional work is not always
the weakest work, although we tend to
think that it must be. Transitions can
be to something worse as well as to
something better. But it may be fine
in itself. Transitional or not, Tange’s
work is first class.
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The Sources
This is not the place to report Japanese architec-
tural history, but it must be said that its evolution
over a millennium and a half has been quiet. It was
long ago that the door moved from the end to the
side of the building, that the open plan demanded a
detached wall, the fence. The desire not to separate
exterior and interior architectural effects stretches
well back behind the fine example at Horyuki.
Since the Japanese did not develop a truss, they
had to gain long spans either with enormous timbers
or by the use of king-post systems, and either solu-
tion limited the depths of buildings and required in-
genious planning. The engineering led to ever more
complex systems of brackets and corbels. But in the
end the depth of the rooms had to be restricted by
the difficulty of supporting a heavy roof on a funda-
mentally trabeated system. The Japanese forests
were as cooperative as could have been asked, sup-
plying timbers for the 170-ft depth of the monumen-
tal Daibutsuden at Tadaiji, but the difficulties of
hauling such long elements limited their use to ex-
travagant situations. Moreover, the Japanese do not
seem to care much for awe produced by monumen-
tality in the Western (Roman) imperial sense. And
over all the evolution of her architecture, Japan has
witnessed no such contrasts as can be seen in Eu-
rope from Classic to early Christian, to Romanesque,
to Gothic, to Renaissance, to Baroque, to Contem-
porary. There have been many changes, but never,
at least until now, such dramatic things as occur
when architecture moves from post and lintel to
dome, to groined vault, and finally to structural steel.
It is no doubt characteristic of the Japanese spirit
that it should make its architectural distinctions in
terms of subtle differences of detail rather than
through brutal and almost total changes of attitude
and expression. This sensitivity seems still to exist
even with the new materials, of which reinforced
concrete is the clearly dominant one.
A Modest Approach to Concrete
But concrete itself poses problems which the Japa-
nese recognize as well as anybody, and which they
approach with more modesty than some. After years
of neglect, some American designers, for example,
seem to think of this material as a magnificent new
plaything. It is in a different vein that the Japanese
are thinking. It is all well expressed by Keiichi Oku-
mura, an associate of Mayekawa:
“The idea of creating space with concrete is one
which seems to us very promising, but at the same
time it poses a number of problems which we do not
yet understand. Concrete is still not a familiar build-
ing material in Japan, and we still have much to
138 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Hall Naonber One, International Trade Center, Tokyo; Masa-
chiko Murata, architect
MASACHIKO MURATA
A third man, Masachiko Murata, has
produced a group of three buildings for
the Tokyo International Trade Center
whose pictures tell the truth about them
and therefore speak for themselves.
Hall Nwmber Оте offers an amazing
two-story open space supported on a
range of precast concrete A-frames ris-
ing from pin joints. These run down
the middle and from them stretch a
series of wide-ranging tapered steel
girders, all seeming to balance on the
A, although in fact they are received at
delicate post supports also hinged at
the ends. The construction is interest-
ing, the statement clear, the space use-
ful, the facade simple, direct (and
Western).
Hall Number Two, a great truncated
dome with diagonal struts 4 la Nervi, is
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perhaps a tour de force, and seems so
until one gets into the dome space with
its great oculus, its curved ladder ro-
tating around the inner shell, and its
triangularly reticulated ceiling. Then it
becomes most expressive.
Hall Three has somewhat more Jap-
anese characteristics, especially in the
way it takes advantage of a stand-by
reservoir placed there to provide water
for fire fighting, but embraced by the
architects as a kind of reflecting pool
on which some of the building seems to
float. Except for this grace note and
the fact that all three buildings are
good buildings, one has to say that
they are not peculiarly Japanese and
might quite as well have been found in
Turin.
J.E.B.
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Hall Number Two, International Trade Center, Tokyo;
Masachiko Murata, architect
Hall Number Three, International Trade Center, Tokyo;
Masachiko Murata, architect
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learn about its properties—not only its color and
texture, but its acoustic and thermal behavior. . . .
Concrete is not necessarily suited to any and all
needs . . . we felt it necessary to explore the possi-
bilities of concrete as a means of building something
both simple and beautiful, something with an air of
humanity, transcending mere function. We believe
that the suitability of this material in Japan must
be thoroughly demonstrated, and having made a step
in this direction, we are more than ever convinced
that beautiful results are possible. . . . А good
building cannot be achieved simply by solving prob-
lems that have to do with acoustics, structure or the
like. There must be more. Social, technical and eco-
nomic problems must be worked out, but even more
important is the problem of making a building that
people will love. When it receives genuine human af-
fection, а building comes to life. . . . Unfortunate-
ly, our knowledge of concrete is still elementary. We
are still taking our first steps. When the children
who are learning to be friendly with the concrete
stairs, columns and foyers of this building [Seta-
кауа, see p. 131] have grown up, perhaps concrete
will have revealed to us a richness of expression be-
yond anything we can conceive of today. . . ."*
Giant Steps in Concrete
Although Wright, and especially Raymond, used con-
crete in Japan years ago, Japanese architects have
begun to use it widely only since the war, and thus
are taking those “first steps" which in my mind are
giant strides.
This does not mean that they are marching hand
in hand down а common, broad highway. For con-
crete is а versatile material, capable of anything,
capable almost of too much. It can provide trabeated
buildings, but add to them the range provided by
continuous spans and rigidity at the columns so
that cantilevers, for example, are natural things.
This has, in general, been the mood of Tange. It re-
sults sometimes in an expression not unlike the tra-
beation of the older wood, but not because Tange is
copying the old form. Yet some of the younger men
illogically reject the trabeated expression of con-
crete and demand that architecture cease to “pile
up" members. In such statements they are less cer-
tainly expositors of the truth of concrete than op-
ponents of anything that resembles the old. But on
the other hand, concrete is “plastic” too, and the
forms of Le Corbusier, more observed now but pro-
claimed long ago, as well as the excessive forms
which concrete permits (I do not say encourages)
have fascinated some of the younger Japanese, al-
though none as yet has gone to the extremes of some
of the buildings of Vigano and Rudolph.
*'The Japan Architect, August 1959, p. 10
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Kabuki Theater, Osaka; Togo Murano, architect
NEW TRENDS
After Murata, Japanese architecture
seems about to take off. There is the
old-fashioned Togo Murano producing
a charming new Kabuki Theater in
Osaka in 1959, a modern version of the
Momoyama style but making it a thor-
oughly engaging place for a 20th cen-
tury man to visit.
There is young Kiyonori Kikutake
perching his Sky House on a side slope
of Tokyo in 1958 so that his family can
look out over the closely packed adjacent
roofs from their one-story platform
with its stair which, like a drawbridge,
can be drawn into the platform at
night. But this is not quite as much of a
tour de force as it seems, and the spaces
developed on the platform do not betray
the principles of conventional Japanese
domestic life.
At the end of this trail for the present
is Fumihiko Maki’s just completed Na-
goya University Auditorium, which I
know only from photographs. Maki is a
man to watch. A Japanese, a product
of Tange’s school, a postgraduate in
America at Harvard, a professor at
Washington University in St. Louis
where he produced one or two interest-
Y. Futagawa
Architect's House, Tokyo;
Kiyonori Kikutake, architect
ing buildings, he is just returning to the
United States after an Indian and Jap-
anese sojourn which came about as the
result of his winning a Graham Foun-
dation Fellowship. The Nagoya Build-
ing is the most original expression to
be found in Japan of what I suppose
must be called Brutalism.
Maki seems to me to be a talented
man, and I hope this building may
prove to be an aberration. But perhaps
not, for he and other young Japanese,
including Masato Ohkata in Maye-
kawa’s office, are not content to follow
in the footsteps of either Tange or
Mayekawa. Rather they want to cut
their own. It is this which has led them
to issue a manifesto on Group Form,
and to demonstrate this in model form
in a proposal for the redevelopment of
the Shinjuku Urban Renewal Project
which to my old eyes is interesting but
strange. Since both these young men
are able, intelligent and sincere, and
by no means show-offs, it is probably
my eyes that are too old rather than
their ideas which are too young. If so,
another article on Japan a decade from
now will look nothing like this. J.E.B.
Shinjuku Urban Renewal Proposal; Fumihiko Maki and Masato Ohkata, architects
peu M
Auditorium, Nagoya University, Fumihiko Maki, architect
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New Currents in Japanese Architecture
Once again, concrete permits the spanning of great
spaces in all directions as timbers do not unless they
are forced too far. Not many Japanese needs call for
such spaces. The Kabuki theater, for example, with
its ultra-wide stage, would be lost in a building the
shape of Saarinen’s auditorium, however great the
dome. There will be some occasions for shells and
for structures à la Nervi, and we can expect to see
them, but perhaps not as the dominating architec-
tural expression. Finally, the Japanese are prepared
for many experiments with the surface of concrete,
even though the instinct of their craftsmen opposes
the leaning of designers to the rough surfaces of Le
Corbusier; though they are highly sensitive to the
nature of materials, they are not dogmatic about it
and they know that there can be no uniquely “hon-
est" expression for the surface of this protean amal-
gam.
Some Old Building Types
Japanese architecture in the near future will of National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo;
course be conditioned by the needs of the people. The Le Corbusier, architect;
Japanese need is large and the freedom to supply it Jenzo Sakakura, Kunio Mayekawa,
is larger than most nations have enjoyed, due to the Такашяан Үозшакау/нирегүїнон
demolition of war апа the flimsy nature of most
modest Japanese structures. As in all other places,
the history of Japanese architecture has been domi-
nated by the temple, the palace, the castle and the
house. The Buddhist and Shinto precincts are not
going to change very soon. Some as at Ise, will be
ceremonially rebuilt from time to time on a ritualis-
tic calendar; most will be rebuilt periodically on a
more flexible schedule as maintenance needs and
funds permit. (Funds are hard to come by except
in the places tourists love best, now that so many
temples and shrines have been declared national
monuments but denuded of national financial sup-
port.) But most of these will be rebuilt with the an-
cient materials and in the ancient ways as a matter
of course. One or two have been rebuilt in concrete,
but in the ancient forms, and although this may
minimize the damage by fire, it is not an esthetically
happy outcome even when the imitation is extremely
clever. But it is quite unlikely that we shall see a
spate of exotic new church forms in the service of
the major religions, while the effect of Christian,
Jewish and Moslem ecclesiastical architecture is
bound, now, to remain quite unnoticeable.
The small houses will probably also follow the an-
cient patterns, save a few built by rising young ar-
chitects such as the one Kikutake built for himself
(see p. 141), but even these will be remarkably Jap-
anese inside. Group housing, on the other hand, will
probably take. on.Western forms throughout, and the
obvious model at the moment seems to be the Unité
d’Habitation.
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CORBU IN JAPAN
Despite the many imperfections of the
National Museum of Western Art in
Tokyo, and despite a number of things
done by the collaborators of which it
seems Le Corbusier could hardly ap-
prove, the building, completed in 1959, is
an outstanding one, even before it con-
tains the 500-sq-m. photographic mural
to the glory of the 19th century in the
Occident which Le Corbusier has begun
to study and which he promises to bring
to Tokyo at a suitable time and then to
giveinstructions forits proper execution.
The Museum, it may be recalled, was
built to house Kojiro Matsukata’s col-
lection of 400 works of French 19th
and 20th century art. The collection
reached Japan after Mr. Matsukata’s
death and only on condition that the
gallery be designed by а suitable
French architect. The choice wisely fell
on Le Corbusier, who made the prelim-
inary drawings. These were executed
by Mayekawa, in collaboration with
Junzo Sakakura and Takamasa Yoshi-
zaka.
There are many fine features about
the Museum. The natural circulation
offered to the visitor is very good; the
unusual skylights afford good though
not perfect natural and artificial light-
ing, much better, for example, than
that of the Guggenheim or at Wellesley
College; and moreover, the skylights do
not suggest anything labored on the
exterior. This lighting system deserves
а little more detailed attention. Well
above the roof a concrete monitor rises
to support a solid roof and transparent
sides. These let light into a room hung
down into the gallery on the long axis.
This room in turn has a solid floor per-
forated by spotlights and forming a
ceiling some nine ft above the main
floor. Other spots can be moved around
inside the room. The walls of the room,
moreover, can be translucent, but the
panels are sliding and roll blinds are
available so that the light can be ma-
nipulated to offer some modulation
after it has passed through the monitor
and the walls of the room at solar
angles well below the zenith. The ex-
periment is an interesting one (and
incomplete). As it stands, the final re-
sults may or may not be worth the ef-
fort, but it is to be hoped that further
developments in other buildings will
carry the idea further and improve
upon it.
The facades and entrances of the
building are ingratiating, and, in short,
it just misses being one of Le Corbusi-
er's masterpieces.
For this there are, I think, two prin-
cipal reasons. First, the building is a
Courtesy the Japan Architect
little tricky, and, just as in the Guggen-
heim, one is too often aware that an
architect has passed by and not con-
scious enough perhaps that painters
and sculptors have deposited their
works for you to see. Second, the fin-
ishes are altogether too refined for the
scheme, and certainly not what we have
come to expect from Le Corbusier.
Either those who executed Le Corbusi-
er's design were insufficiently vigilant
to preserve the coarser textures in the
face of the modes of the Japanese arti-
sans, or Le Corbusier was wrong to
have designed something which called
for treatments incompatible with the
way the Japanese would work. In such
cases, I think, we must always blame
the genius, for he is the one. who should
display the sensitivity and the foresight.
But whoever is to blame, the incompati-
bility is flagrant. J.E.B.
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New Currents in Japanese Architecture
And Some New Building Types
There will be factories and office buildings in con-
temporary forms. Up to now, anyway, these types
have not been served by many of the best pieces of
architecture. Indeed, at the moment Japan seems to
be a blessed country where the hotels and the pri-
vate apartments and the halls of commerce are in-
ferior to the public buildings instead of, as with us,
the other way around. For some time to come we can
expect, I think, that the best architects will be work-
ing on buildings for huge masses of people, on city
and provincial halls, on auditoria and other cultural
centers. All these can expect to be thronged with
people, and since Japanese do not wish to be ground
down by monumentality, the problem is a grave one.
The crowds must be accommodated and they must be
accommodated at the Japanese scale, which means
that large spaces must somehow be married to in-
timacy.
I think they will solve it; indeed, they are solving
it. It is after all an old Japanese problem. It will
be solved because Japanese tradition has deeper
roots than those of mere loyal intellectual remem-
brance or a feeling of dutiful obeisance to a Medi-
cean or a Jeffersonian ancestor. And the new build-
ings will achieve this in harmony with the old ones,
but without being like them, and even with no great
self-conscious effort on the part of the Japanese ar-
chitects.
Quite aside from the Japanese sensitivity, there
is, I think, another reason why this is and will be
so. The modern movement in Europe owes a great
deal to the influence of Japan upon Wright and
Taut. It matured in Europe, and now that it comes
back to Japan it is not surprising that the new work
looks ancestral. It may not be easy to say whether
modern architecture is Japanese or Japanese archi-
tecture is modern.
It will probably, and unfortunately, be a long time
before spectacular successes will be scored at the
urban level. The difficulty of accumulating land and
of producing sensible urban plans seems fantastic.
The economy is not one that will often permit the
planning of units even as large as Rockefeller or
Lincoln Center. But that the individual results will
often be superior seems to me clearly to be beyond
debate and already demonstrated.
Drawing Some Conclusions
Japan is worth an architectural pilgrimage even if
you never go to Horyuji or Katsura, which would be
a silly affectation. Yet the architects who are work-
ing so well are not without their quandaries, and in
essence they are the same as the quandaries of the
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rest of us. In the end, they are various statements of
the problem of how to reconcile culture with tech-
nology, or, better, how to make them into one while
being sure that mechanization and rationalism do
not destroy individualism and sentiment.
What one does about so majestic a question is
naturally a matter of temperament. It has affected
different men in Japan differently, just as it has af-
fected different men in Italy, though the gaps be-
tween the extremes may not be so wide, for example,
as those between Vigano and Ricci on the one hand
and Gardella and Ponti on the other; nor as great
as those between Yamasaki or Saarinen or Bunshaft.
Meanwhile, we can rest the case for Japan on the
work of Mayekawa and Tange and the words of Yu-
saku Kamekura in an essay called The Katachi.
Katachi is a Japanese word for which the closest
English expression may be “distinctive form.” Ka-
mekura pays high respect to the heritage of Katachi,
but insists that it be not accepted uncritically. The
Japanese view, perhaps unlike the modern revolt in
the West, is to reject and rebel against the heritage
while also trying to love and frankly accept it.
“If it had not been for this spirit of rebellion, we
would never have known the balance of the world,
we would never have realized the importance of ra-
tionality and function, but would have merely gone
on carrying on with our old traditions, holding on
to our stiff necked artisanship and our festering
technique-consciousness.
“One of the problems which have been imposed
upon us Japanese designers is the problem of tradi-
tion. Tradition is a burden for the designer, but one
which he cannot reject. We have the duty to take
our tradition apart, and then put it together again
in a new way.”
Mayekawa and Tange have put the pieces back
together in their own fine way. Maki and Ohkata and
their contemporaries have the pieces spread out on
the floor. They will not put them back in the manner
of their predecessors. But they are likely, too, to find
a good way. To watch this development is interest-
ing everywhere today, interesting if not always
pleasant. In Japan it is pleasant most of the time.
It is easy to agree with the statement made by Ya-
suhiro Nakasone, Minister of Administration, in
congratulating the recent World Design Conference
in Tokyo: “There should be no doubt, therefore, that
our Japanese culture or Oriental culture broadly has
much to contribute to the welfare of the whole
world.” Of this there is no doubt. The contribution
will come not only from contemplation of the Kat-
sura Palace of the Miroku Basatu; or of flower ar-
rangements and tea ceremonies; or of the teachings
of Zen Buddhism. At Kurashiki and Takamatsu, in
Nagoya and Osaka, and Kyoto and Tokyo, it will be
found also in completely contemporary terms.
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tural tradition. For these two buildings, with
their graceful, flat-arched arcades and buff-
colored concrete, respectfully acknowledge
the strong statement of the early "Quad"
buildings (by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge)
and the rusticated buff stone, red tile roofs
and many arches which are the campus hall-
mark; but they do this in their own com-
pletely contemporary idiom. Materials and
technique as much as design make possible
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The vaulted forms were precast and lifted into place on top of the cast-in-place col-
umns; joints were then grouted. Concrete bents for roof and wall framing were also
precast; after placing of the vaults, these were hoisted to positions 15 ft o.c. Their
loads are transmitted to columns through connections at column tops. The system frees
walls for a variety of fillers: concrete block with stucco finish for solid walls; large
glass panels on both sides of the Book Store for light and transparency in the sales 2
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Stanford University
Book Store and Post Office
Book store interior (top) keeps the feel-
ing of a single great space, lofty, light
and spacious, while accommodating very
extensive book stocks in open displays
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“The need for good architects has never been greater than it is
today ..
. So far we have utterly failed to use these achieve-
ments to create an acceptable man-made environment . . .
9
ART vs. SCIENCE IN EDUCATION?
by Professor Richard Llewelyn Davies, M.A., F.R.I.B.A.
Professor of Architecture, London University; this paper is his inaugural address
This month, 300 years ago, the Royal Society was
founded. One of its Founder members was Christo-
pher Wren, a mathematician, astronomer and ar-
chitect. Wren saw no conflict between his work as
an artist and as a scientist; it would not have oc-
curred to him to draw a line between art and sci-
епсе. But this distinction, which became firmly es-
tablished in the nineteenth century, is now en-
trenched in our thinking. It has split our concept
of the architect down the middle. Our present pat-
tern of architectural education derives from a time
when the division between art and science was wid-
est. Although this division has been challenged in
recent times, particularly by Walter Gropius, and is
now rarely defended, the form and content of our
education has so far undergone little change. We
therefore have to review the whole pattern of ar-
chitectural education, to consider the range of
knowledge which an architect needs, and the meth-
ods by which he can be trained to use his knowledge
as a creative designer.
The need for good architects has never been great-
er than it is to-day. If we review the achievements
of civilisation in recent years we can justly claim
stupendous advances in our power to control our
environment. Daring and triumphant advances are
being made every day by science and technology,
but so far we have utterly failed to use these achieve-
ments to create an acceptable man-made environ-
ment in our cities and buildings. Architects are con-
cerned with this environment, from the city plan
down to the doorknob, and architecture profoundly
affects all our lives.
Vitruvius, writing in the time of Augustus, said
that an architect should “have a knowledge of let-
ters, be expert in drawing, learned in geometry, not
ignorant in optics, instructed in arithmetic, well
read in history, to have diligently attended to philos-
ophy, to have a knowledge of music, not a stranger
to physic, understanding in the Law, and conversant
in astronomy and the aspects of the heavens.” He
argues the case for each branch of knowledge in
detail, explaining the need to study medicine in or-
der that buildings and towns fulfil the needs of pub-
lic health, and for a knowledge of arithmetic “in
order that the expense of the edifice may be calcu-
lated and the difficult question of symmetry solved.”
However, he goes on to say that an architect need
not achieve full mastery of these subjects so long as
he reaches a general competence in them. Some few
men, says Vitruvius, will achieve complete mastery
of all these subjects, such men will “surpass the
achievements of architects and become mathema-
ticians."?
The architects of the Renaissance quoted Vitru-
vius with approval in their writings, and often ful-
filled in their own persons his stringent specifica-
tions for an architect. Up to the time of Wren, it
was accepted that an architect’s education should
cover the whole range of human knowledge, and it
was possible for it to do so. To an architect of the
Renaissance the body of knowledge which he used
appeared as an homogeneous whole, and he would
not understand any attempt to divide it as between
art and science. No theories or rules of architec-
tural composition will be found in Renaissance
treatises; they did not try to separate out the act of
design, or to legislate for it as an activity on its
own.
A different and historically disastrous picture of
the architect’s training and of the role of the archi-
tect was established during the nineteenth century.
At this time social change and technical advance
1 The Royal Society: Its origins and founders: London, 1960, p. 99
? The Architecture of Vitruvius, London, 1791.
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had greatly widened the range of knowledge re-
quired by an architect and made necessary many
new kinds of buildings of a complex and unprece-
dented kind. The architects of the period reacted
to this challenge by abandoning altogether the
Renaissance concept of the architect as a universal
man, by excluding important branches of knowledge
and by establishing the idea that architecture was
an art with its own fundamental discipline quite
separate from any other art, science or craft. They
withdrew both from the study of what was needed
in buildings, and from the study of building con-
struction.
They evaded the problems of building need by
inventing the concept of the architects ‘“‘pro-
gramme", a written schedule of instructions defin-
ing the requirements of the building in detail, even
down to the sizes of rooms. It was the task of the
building owner or client to work out this programme
and present it to the architect. This has proved a
disastrous innovation, and has had ill-effects from
which we are only just beginning to emerge. (The
architect of the Renaissance did not need a pro-
gramme. If he was asked to design a church or a
villa, the breadth of his education ensured that he
would share with his client an understanding of what
would be needed.)
It was more difficult to evade the problem of
building construction and technology. They met this
challenge by a determined attempt to limit the forms
used in building to a selected range. This range,
based as far as possible on classical models, con-
sisted of a number of “elements”: the arch, the door,
the window, etc. Once this range had been estab-
lished the constructional details of each could be
learnt by rote by the student. Further, the engineer's
part was reduced to that of making these elements
stand up safely in a building. His role became sec-
ondary, and the need for the architect to understand
structural principles as a basis for design was made
to appear unnecessary.
Architecture could now be defined as an art of
assembly, and this was how it was taught at the
École des Beaux Arts. Treatises on the “theory of
architecture” appear at this period. They deal with
principles of assembly; they are concerned with
symmetry and balance and postulate various rules:
for example, that duality is to be avoided. This meant
that two similar objects, such as the two arches of
King’s Cross Station, should not be put together un-
less they were dominated by a third, more impor-
tant, object which was then said to “resolve the
duality".
The system of teaching was exactly fitted to the
principles I have just described. The students had to
learn the basic catalogue of building elements in
close detail. For the studio exercises, the students
had to prepare a preliminary “esquisse” or sketch.
Each student was confined in a separate cubicle for
a whole day ; he was handed a detailed programme,
“Its aim was to establish for artists and architects the link with the realities . .
prepared by the teacher. During the day he composed
the design using an appropriate selection of ele-
ments, and in the evening presented his sketch. This
whole procedure exactly symbolises the Beaux Arts
conception of the architect’s role in society: he is
cut off from life by his professional expertise—the
cubicle. He receives his programme from outside in a
rigid and detailed form; he then, by an act of indi-
vidual inspiration, assembles a number of ingredi-
ents into a design.
Even at the height of its influence the Beaux Arts
system was attacked as narrow, particularly by the
architect and teacher, Viollet-le-Duc. He blamed it
for the production of architects who “involve private
individuals and public bodies, who entrust works to
them, in enormous expense; who are disinclined to
study the material requirements of the programme
or its practical execution; whose aim is rather to
erect buildings that will do honour to themselves
than to fulfil all the conditions imposed by the needs
and habits of the day." He goes on, “to make archi-
tecture a mystery, an art shut up within certain con-
ventional methods, which the profane can neither see
nor comprehend, may be (it is true) the means of
preserving a kind of monopoly to those who enjoy
it; but is it not to be feared the initiated will be left
alone with their mysteries ?" 5
Sixty years later Walter Gropius, at the Bauhaus
in Dassau, developed the only really comprehensive
and consistent set of principles for architectural ed-
ucation between the Beaux Arts and the present
day. In a comparatively short time between its estab-
lishment in 1919 and its dissolution under political
pressures in 1933, the Bauhaus made a contribution
of historic importance. The essential idea behind the
Bauhaus was in diametric opposition to that of the
Beaux Arts; it was opposed to nineteenth century
dualism, separating the individual from the com-
munity, and held that art was essentially one with
other branches of activity. Its aim was to establish
for artists and architects the link with the realities
of matter, technique and economy. The student was
first subjected to a preparatory course lasting six
months, aimed at freeing him from all pre-conceived
ideas about form, and helping him to use first-hand
experience. After this he pursued parallel courses in
the school workshops, and in design. The purpose of
the workshop course was not so much to teach prac-
tical skills for their own sake as to ensure that the
student escaped from the isolation of design on pa-
per, and achieved a direct feeling for form and ma-
terial. Design was not seen, at the Bauhaus, as a
subject on its own; instead the student was taught
the psychology of vision and the physics of light. In
its short life the Bauhaus made an immense. impact.
Many of the most famous architects and designers
of today were students there; the painters Kandin-
sky and Klee worked there, and tubular steel furni-
ture was invented in the Bauhaus workshops. The
Bauhaus is always referred to with respect, but its
theoretical basis is often misunderstood, and the
lessons of its achievement have never been fully ex-
ploited.
Consider an architect’s education at the present
time. It is illuminating to contrast the pattern in ar-
chitecture with other fields where academic education
is linked to professional training, such as medicine
and engineering. In engineering it is common prac-
tice to devote the three years of the university course
almost entirely to fundamental theory and leave the
more practical aspects of the subject to be learnt
after leaving the university, or by postgraduate
courses. In medicine the transition is less abrupt but
there is а similar progression, starting from the
teaching of pure science and ending with clinical ex-
perience in а teaching hospital. There are good rea-
sons for this progression; it follows the logic of the
subject; and students find it easier to learn the neces-
sary theoretical subjects at the beginning of the
course, as these connect directly with what they
have been taught at school. But there is one danger.
The student may pass through the whole of the
early, and most formative part of his education
without ever being presented with the totality of his
subject, as he will meet it in practice. When he
comes to diagnose a patient, build a bridge or de-
sign an aeroplane, he must act intuitively, for his
decisions will involve weighing a number of incom-
mensurable factors. If his early teaching is com-
pletely fragmented into the basic sciences which un-
derlie his subject he will not be trained in the art of
balancing the several different aspects of his prob-
lems, nor will his powers of intuition be developed.
Finally, in every university subject, except architec-
ture, postgraduate studies and research are vigor-
ously pursued. It is through these studies that the
subject is advanced, new knowledge developed, and
future teachers trained. In the professional subjects
postgraduate work is also an introduction to high-
level practice, and trains the student in collaboration
with men from related disciplines, working as a
member of a team.
Architectural education presents a striking con-
trast. Postgraduate teaching and research hardly
exist. The main strength lies in the training it gives
in the intuitive and creative process; i.e. design work
in the studio. Lectures, with their attendant exami-
nations, are regarded as necessary but rather irri-
tating interruptions. The principal lecture courses
are given in three main subjects: history of archi-
tecture, structural engineering, and buildings con-
struction. There is little attempt to separate theory
from application, or to ensure that theory is taught
first. The general pattern I have described applies,
with minor modifications, to nearly all schools of ar-
chitecture in this country—despite a wide varia-
tion in character from school to school.
Some schools of architecture are thought of as tra-
3 Viollet-le-Due, Lectures om Architecture, London, 1877.
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ditional, and some as revolutionary, but the differ-
ence seems to rest in the flavour imparted to the in-
struetion by the teachers, and not to any real differ-
ences in the form or content of the courses.
Do our present courses provide a fit education for
an architect? The answer can only be no. The range
and character of the knowledge presented to students
is obviously inadequate, and our methods of teaching
are sufficiently eccentric to warrant serious discus-
sion. The results may not be as bad as we might ex-
pect, but this is due mainly to the intrinsic fascina-
tion of the subject and the enthusiasm of the stu-
dents, who indeed often emerge as architects and
sometimes as educated men, despite the inadequacies
of our system.
What should an architect’s education be at the
present time? It is certain that we must come out of
the narrow private world of nineteenth century ar-
chitecture, divorced from science and practical life.
But can we, in the conditions of to-day, hope to re-
establish the architect as an all-round man—the
uomo universale of the Renaissance? We can, but
only if we make a distinction between practice and
theory. This was clear enough to Vitruvius: “.
every art consists of two parts, the practice, and the
theory; of these, one is peculiar to those who exer-
cise each particular art, viz. the practice; the other,
which is the theory, is common to all the learned.”
With this distinction in mind we can review the field
of knowledge which has to be covered in an archi-
tect’s education, noting that while he needs to under-
stand the fundamental theory of a very wide range
of subjects, he does not have to go far down the path
of practical application in all of them. Let us begin
with subjects which are wholly neglected at present
—the group of sciences which deal with the human
being—both as an individual and as a member of a
group.*
The environment created by an architect impinges
on the individual human being through his eyes and
his ears, it affects his comfort through his skin and
his breathing. To understand what he is doing when
he designs a building, an architect must know how
it will affect people. Therefore he must be taught
something of anatomy, physiology and the psychol-
ogy of the special senses. He must also understand
enough physics to predict the physical conditions
which will be produced within his buildings by his
design. In our present courses some consideration is
given to these questions, but they are dealt with in
the wrong way and at the wrong time. Instead of
presenting the physics, psychology and physiology
of the human environment at the very beginning of
the course as part of the theoretical basis of architec-
ture, we usually give the student a short account of
the practical problems of heating, lighting and
acoustics towards the end of his training. He natu-
rally forms the conclusion that these environmental
factors are something additional to the architectural
design—something to be solved by calling in a tech-
“What should an architect’s education be at the present time?"
nical expert. This is a striking example of the conse-
quences of the false opposition of art and science.
Perhaps the extreme physical, psychological and
aesthetie discomfort which you are suffering this
evening in this lecture room can be attributed to the
mal-education of its architect in this respect.
The social sciences are equally important, as they
provide the means whereby we can fit buildings to
the needs of human beings as a group. Modern so-
ciety is too complex for the architect to have an auto-
matic understanding of what is wanted in a build-
ing; the client does not know this either, although
he sometimes thinks he does. For many modern
buildings, there is no single client. Many people are
concerned with the functioning of a hospital or a
college, each may understand the workings of some
part of it but no one understands it completely, as a
whole. Again, the long life of buildings when com-
pared with the rate of change of human organisa-
tion, means that people often adjust their pattern of
life or work to fit an old building. If they are asked to
specify their needs for a new one they think in terms
of an old and familiar environment, they cannot
break out to see what they really want. Therefore
the client's brief is nearly always wrong, and a bad
brief inevitably results in disastrous architecture.
The solution lies in the joint study of building func-
tion by architect and client. The techniques for study
are those of the social sciences, and the architect's
education must equip him to understand and use
these methods.
The idea that these sciences are related to archi-
tecture is fairly new and we have still to work out
how best to teach them. In doing so we shall be great-
ly helped by the development of research. There are
already several examples which point the way. One
is the study of natural lighting in buildings, which
involves architecture, physics and psychology. Re-
search in this field has already given us new ways
of thinking about light, shape and colour, and stimu-
lated the appearance of completely new forms in ar-
chitecture. There is also important work on the func-
tional requirements of certain types of buildings—
schools, hospitals and laboratories—by research
groups which include people from many disciplines
working as a team. We must encourage the growth
of these studies within university departments of ar-
chitecture. They provide the essential link between
teaching, theory and advanced practice, without
which professional education stagnates.®
These are new subjects, but we have also to con-
sider the traditional ones. Of these, history of ar-
chitecture is an aneient and respected example. But
it can be challenged. Is it really necessary to the edu-
cation of an architect to learn about the past? If we
think simply in terms of the ancient buildings them-
selves, I think we must admit that there is a real
difficulty in drawing lessons from them for the pres-
ent. Their beauty may move us deeply, we may get
keen pleasure from them—but do they connect close-
ly enough to give us real help when we sit down to
design a building ourselves? So long as historical
teaching remains concentrated on the outward form
of ancient buildings, presenting them in a systema-
tised catalogue, covering all periods and all coun-
tries—a sort of architectural fauna and flora—it is
hard to answer this question affirmatively. But if in-
stead we consider the recent work of art historians,
particularly those working in the Courtauld and
Warburg Institutes at this University, we can make
much more positive use of history. Take, for exam-
ple, the study of Renaissance architects by Witt-
kower, professor of the History of Art at Columbia
University. He is able to show how Alberti and Pal-
ladio themselves saw their problems, what they
aimed to achieve, and how they set about it. His book®
is a revelation; it brings out the methods and princi-
ples which underlie Renaissance architecture. These
methods and principles—the use of mathematical
proportions, the symbolic purpose of architectural
forms—are very close indeed to the problems of our
times, or indeed of any time. We now realise that
if we take history in this way, concentrating if need
be on certain periods, we can make it a very vital
part of an architect's education. Once again, art and
science interlock, and some of the methods of scien-
tific enquiry which I have mentioned earlier are now
giving us fresh insight into the achievements of the
past. Studies in light and vision have given us a clue
as to why a Georgian sash window is so pleasing to
the eye, and why late Gothic church interiors have
such a magical, disembodied quality.
Another traditional subject, theory of structure,
is absolutely fundamental to architecture. An archi-
tect without a strong intuitive sense of the play of
forces in a structure has one hand tied behind his
back. It is of the utmost importance to get this part
of his education right, but there are very great diffi-
culties in doing so. Very few architects have man-
aged to acquire this sense, and few engineers have it.
either. At the conclusion of his course, an architect.
can carry out some of the calculations necessary to
analyse what is likely to happen to a given structure
subjected to a given force. But ask him to imagine a.
structure appropriate to a particular set of circum-
stances, or to guess imaginatively at the pattern of
stress in a given structure without performing his
calculations, and, most often, he will not be able to do
it. How are we to teach this? First we must face the
hard fact that the concepts of theory of structure
are mathematical. There is no easy way of impart-
ing a sense of structure—it can only be done through
mathematical understanding. We will therefore need
to give more attention in our teaching to the funda-
* Richard. Llewelyn Davies, Human Sciences, The Architectural Review,
March 1960.
5 Richard Llewelyn Davies, Deeper Knowledge: Better Design, Architectural
Record April 1957.
в ees Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, London,.
1953.
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Image of the Architect
mental, mathematical side of engineering design,
and to bring the student, through a mastery of the-
ory, to an intuitive grasp of structure. At the same
time I hope we can drop some of the teaching in ap-
plied structures. No architect to-day designs his own
steel frame, and no point is served in trying to train
him to do so.
Finally we come to the traditional group of sub-
jects dealing with building construction and build-
ing materials. Teaching in these subjects has become
a desperate and hopeless race to keep up with the
increasing range of materials available in building
and the increasingly complicated techniques for as-
sembling them. Fifty years ago an architect could be
taught pretty well all there was to know in this
field, but even then it was formidable. Then, it was
part of his job to design a window, drawing out on
paper the precise shape of the joint between the top
and side members, specifying how they should be
wedged and glued together, and selecting the timber
to be used. This never happens today. An aluminum
window is not designed by an individual architect
but by a factory design team. Only a metallurgist
could judge whether the aluminum of which it is
made is suitable for its purpose. Even if the architect
uses a timber window, it will be jointed with a syn-
thetic resin adhesive which only a highly specialised
organic chemist could specify.
Once again, the lesson is that we must go back to
the basis of the subject. We must give up the at-
tempt to pursue in an academic course the applica-
tion of technology in every field of building. These
applications will be better learnt by the young archi-
tect during his early years of practice, after leaving
the school. Our task is to educate a man who can
master these problems when he meets them. He
needs to be sufficiently literate in physics and chem-
istry to relate materials and methods of construction
to the needs of any particular job. He needs to be
able to read and understand discussions of a scien-
tific character and to know how to work with and
learn from experts. We should have something to
learn from the training of doctors in this matter.
The medical profession has also had to face the
transition from the days when the doctor mixed his
own potions to the circumstances of to-day, when he
has to prescribe medicine made by processes outside
his experience and whose chemical structure he
could not describe.
I have devoted a good deal of time to discussing
the theoretical and didactic part of our education. I
have done so because this is at present so weak, and
not because I consider the other side, training in de-
sign, to be any less important. Design work in the
studio is our strong point. Indeed there is much that
might be learnt from this part of our work by other
university departments. In the studio the student is
continuously reminded of the one-ness of architec-
tural design, and the barriers between art and sci-
ence can be effectively broken down. Every prob-
154 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
lem set to the student can, and should be made to
require some synthesis of the different facets of ar-
chitecture. There are, however, two changes which
we must introduce.
First, we must cease to regard drawing as the
sole means of communication which architects can
use. We must include exercises in which the results
are presented in writing and in speech. We must
educate architects to use all available methods in
communication, and to understand something of the
theory of this subject. Undue emphasis on drawing
has tended to make architecture a closed shop, and
to perpetuate the feeling amongst architects that
they are a private group who cannot discuss the mys-
teries of their work with outsiders.
Second, and this is more important, we must recog-
nise that training in design is not a form of teach-
ing, but something quite different. Teaching involves
facts and knowledge which are imparted to the stu-
dents by a teacher. There are no facts about design,
and we should not try to give lectures about it or
write books about it. Books have indeed been writ-
ten, and lectures given on this topic, but they are
always disappointing to the student. Somehow they
don’t seem to tell you just how to design a beautiful
building; its rather like the disappointment you feel
on reading books about the art of love. Instead of
trying to teach design we must go back to the lessons
of the Bauhaus, and consider how best we can free
students from the things that stop them being able
to design. We have to clear away preconceptions, cli-
chés, a whole mass of accretions, which prevent them
seeing their problems freshly.
It is difficult to explain just what the essential char-
acter of architectural design is. I think it is rather
like Nansen’s voyage across the Polar ice cap. Nan-
sen had a theory about polar drift. He believed that
the ice moved in a particular way, across the North
Pole, from East to West. He assembled all available
knowledge on this subject and all the scientific data,
but his thesis still remained incomplete, unproved. So
he turned from thought to action—he designed and
built a ship, embarked on it, and deliberately al-
lowed it to become locked in the ice, to drift to his
triumphant vindication—or to shipwreck.
The education of an architect should fit him to
undertake his polar voyage. He must be capable of
the devoted preliminary study, the analysis of every
measurable factor, culminating in the imaginative
total grasp of his problem. He must then have the
courage and toughness to lock himself in the ice, to
let the free working of his creative mind take him
towards his goal. To survive the trials of the voyage
he needs one other quality, moral and intellectual in-
tegrity. Mies van der Rohe, who succeeded Gropius
at the Bauhaus, and is one of the greatest of living
architects, said, “Reason is the basis of all human
work. I throw out everything that is not reasonable,
even things very dear to my heart. I don’t want to be
interesting, I want to be good.”
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ARCHITECTS:
CONSULTING ARCHITECTS:
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER:
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Program and Parti
The several requirements of the own-
er and the nature of the site and sub-
soil led to the unusual—and success-
ful—arrangement of the elements in
this building group, which comprises
bank, office building, and parking ga-
rage. The bank had to house 75 tell-
ers and 36 officers’ desks in one room
on one floor; six drive-in windows
were required; while in addition, the
bank itself had to make a strong ar-
chitectural statement. The 32-story
office tower—which helps pay the
freight—had to have entrances and
an elevator lobby separated from (but
used by) the bank, which devotes the
second and third floors to executive
offices. Due to subsoil difficulties,
parking had to be above grade across
the street.
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separated banking room—190 by 123
ft, with a 30 ft ceiling—that appears
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closed passages flanking a clerical
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windows become a separate outdoor
element serviced from below. Thus,
the office building lobby and core do
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the banking room—or vice versa—al-
though the two are interrelated.
The welded steel cage of the office
tower is clad in Vermont white mar-
ble; and the gray glass, neoprene, and
aluminum window wall is set back
five feet for sunshading and window
cleaning—see details, page 158. The
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the top three floors of the tower.
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The Curtain Wall
The recessed window wall is of the “split-mullion” type, conceived as a panel system
rather than as stick construction. Neoprene compression gaskets—outside closed—hold
the glass and, in covering a portion of the aluminum, visually reduce the apparent
width of the mullions, with the result that the glass curtain has an unusually delicate
look. The performance of the curtain wall was tested in full-scale mockup under rigor-
ous conditions of wind and rain.
With the marble-clad columns set free of the wall, interior space is completely un-
hampered, sunshading cuts the air-conditioning tonnage, and window washers can
work on the floor slab extensions
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In the big, glass-enclosed banking pavilion, there аге
365 ft of tellers’ counters, with dies of Canadian
black granite held in stainless steel surrounds, and
with counter-tops of Italian Cremo marble. The of-
ficers’ platform is carpeted in beige and holds 36
desks—architect designed—of teak and stainless
steel; all chairs are upholstered in natural tan leath-
er. The floor—which extends outward to cover the
entire block to the curb lines—is of beige terrazzo
with black plastic dividers. The ceiling is discussed
in detail on the next page. Electric stairways extend
through a circular well to link the bank to the lower
level safe deposit vaults. The two photos immediately
below show (left) the link between bank and office
building, and (right) the office building entrance
lobby and the three elevator banks.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 161
First City National Bank: Unique Ceiling
The banking pavilion ceiling—shown in detail on
these two pages—is suspended from 9 ft 6 in. deep
steel trusses that span the room, and hangs 30 ft
clear of the floor. The ceiling grid pattern is 4 ft 414
in. squares, within which 912 lighting fixtures are
placed. A typical fixture consists of a double pyramid
of perforated aluminum, gold anodized, within which
the light source is arranged to cast illumination both
162 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
downward and on the ceiling itself. The resulting
glow of warm light is most effective, especially as it
tends to balance the flood of daylight from all sides.
Air-conditioning equipment for the banking room
could be located only above the ceiling. For mainte-
nance, a telescoping hoist was installed in a two-
square opening near a corner of the pavilion. Cat-
walks are provided for equipment servicing.
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cation, the owners can boast of several
Texas-sized facts about their new bank:
the largest % in. plate glass panels (9 x
23 ft) ever manufactured and installed in
a building; the two tallest stainless steel
flagpoles (they extend 100 ft above the
sidewalk) rising anywhere; the biggest
banking room (23,370 sq ft) designed to
date by SOM; and (of course) the only
illuminated ceiling anyone ever heard of
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The 800-car parking garage—lo-
cated diagonally across the street
from the bank and tower, and
linked to both by a tunnel—consists
of a series of seven overlapping,
staggered floors. Short ramps are
arranged so the driver moves con-
tinuously up on one side, or down
on the other, with no cross move-
ment. The traffic flow relates to sur-
rounding streets and the pattern of
city traffic movement.
The 250 by 125 ft structure fea-
tures an exposed concrete frame,
which is coated with white vinyl.
The staggered lines of the floors are
concealed behind a perforated
screen of charcoal gray tile which
recalls the gray glass of the office
building. Infilling panels at street
level are of the same Vermont white
marble that sheathes the tower.
In the main, the garage is de-
signed for self-parking, and is oper-
ated by five men. Sufficient facili-
ties are provided so that parking is
available to bank customers, bank
personnel, office building tenants
and visitors, and the public.
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PARKING CONSULTANT: Wilber Smith & Associates
THE PARKING GARAGE
First City National Bank, Houston, Texas
ARCHITECTS: Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Robert J. Cummins
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FIVE ZONE HOUSE WITH
MUCH STYLE FOR $26,000
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Godfrey
LOCATION: Sarasota, Florida
ARCHITECT: Edward J. Seibert
MECHANICAL ENGINEER: L. Н. V. Smith
CONTRACTOR: William V. Blanton
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165
Houses
Joseph W. Molitor
166 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
A great clarity of concept in both plan and Godfrey House
structure gives a vivid impact in this spaci-
ous, yet economical house. It was designed
principally as a winter house for an older
couple who like to entertain, and who have
occasional house guests.
Each of the five main functions of the
house is housed in its individual “сире”,
with the larger and dominant one for enter-
taining used to link the group together. The
four corner “cubes” contain: master bed-
room suite; guest suite; family room for
sitting, cooking and dining; mechanical
equipment, storage and automobiles.
'The site is sandy and flanks a water inlet.
Thus major landscaping was confined, for
best effect and ease of upkeep, to the four
little courtyards created by the corner
“cubes”, and to small screened-in gardens
in each of the “cubes” used for living areas.
The courtyard as the front serves as a sort
of foyer to the house.
'The tall, airy central pavilion for enter-
taining is designed to be light and breezy in
the warm Florida weather. А series of solid
doors on all sides can be opened at an angle
to keep out glare, yet let in breeze. For
colder weather, there is an oil-fired furnace
with underground ducts and thermostat
controls. Kitchen and bath also have elec-
tric heaters and exhaust fans.
The frame is fir, with reinforced con-
crete foundation, terrazzo floors, concrete
block walls, asbestos cement shingle roof.
CARPORT
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Joseph W. Molitor
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1961
Godfrey House
All living spaces have good vistas, both long
range, and little gardens close at hand. All
openings have overhangs to cut glare. The
interiors at left (top to bottom: living room,
master bedroom, and family room) are
finished in latex-painted gypsum board and
concrete block. The exterior walls are
coated with vinyl epoxy masonry paint. The
sliding screens and glass are in aluminum
frames. Jalousies are wood, doors are flush
plywood. The fireplace in the living-enter-
taining area is a pre-fabricated unit. Kitchen
counters are laminated plastic; range and
oven are built-in.
. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
. METHODIST DAY CARE CENTER
. SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN
. BOARDING SCHOOL FOR DEAF
. SCHOOL FOR MENTALLY RETARDED
. MULTIPLE-HANDICAPPED CENTER
. ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
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Children, of course, are the actual clients of the architects who do
school buildings. And children come in various shapes and sizes,
equipped with varying abilities and potentials, possessed of a vari-
ety of problems and needs. All of the schools shown in these pages
attempt to provide for some of the special needs of the children who
use them. All attempt to afford these children some of the benefits
of the special educational methods and facilities they need. Other
than this, the schools shown may seem—at first glance—to have
little in common with each other or with more normal schools. In
actuality, much can be learned from these examples about the plan-
ning of the special types shown. Vastly more important though is
the opportunity to look at these special facilities, keeping in mind
that the particular needs present in the children who use them are
present in some degree in many of the children in all of our schools.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 169
MEDICAL
1. Academic and Maintenance
2. Administration and Food Service
3. Residential Cottages
4. Chapel
Plan: Administration and Food Service
Special School:
1. SOCIAL REHABILITATION OF DELINQUENT BOYS
Kettle Moraine School for Boys This new correctional institution will eventually house 300 teen-aged boys
LOCATION: committed by juvenile courts. It is dedicated to the reclaiming and educat-
Plymouth, Wisconsin ing of the delinquents it houses, rather than to their punishment. In a sense,
ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS: the entire institution is a school in which boys learn to take their places in
J & G Daverman Company society and to work at a trade or prepare to go on to college. In many ways,
CONTRACTOR: the school is similar to private schools, but the high degree of authority
Hutter Construction Co. exercised by school officials and mandatory attendance bring about certain
significant differences.
In discussing the design, the architects of the school say, ‘‘rehabilitation
and education were given priority over custodial and security considera-
tions. After studying several schemes, we developed the concept used, a
campus scheme with clusters of relatively small cottages grouped around
the academic building and other facilities. This design, with its cottage
activity areas and outdoor courts, allows boys to be placed according to their
individual emotional and maturity levels. It lends itself to the creation of
homogeneous groups. Certain advantages derive from this, such as the pos-
sibilities for competition of boys within the clusters and the esprit de corps
which comes from competition with other cottages and clusters.”
Wisconsin State Director of Corrections, Sanger B. Powers says of the
school, “to be effective, the school must make sure that each boy is learning
something worthwhile during his every waking moment. He must not feel
that he is being submerged in an impersonal institution. This efficient plant
is geared to the rehabilitation of youth."
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In the process of educating the whole boy,
every element of the institution must play an
important part. The chapel and residential
units at Kettle Moraine School were designed
as integral parts of the overall educational
scheme, thus allowing the process of rehabili-
tation to go forward 24 hours a day. The
chapel, (left, top) seats 200. On the floor be-
low the chapel proper is a large meeting room
used for club and hobby activities. Adjacent
to this space are the chaplain’s offices. Below
the chapel illustration is shown the entrance
to a typical residential unit. The plan (below)
of each of the units provides private rooms
for 24 boys. There will be three neighborhoods,
each composed of a cluster of four cottages.
Thus, each boy will be part of three communi-
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Special School:
2. DAY CARE FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN
Wesley Child Care Center
LOCATION:
Cincinnati, Ohio
ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS:
A. M. Kinney Associates-
Charles Burchard, Architect
CONTRACTOR:
Meyer-Hecht Company
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program of planned
activities for
children of
working mothers
This child care center, sponsored by the women of the Methodist Church,
provides all-day care for preschool children and after school care for school
children up to the age of ten. The center operates as a charitable institu-
tion for working mothers who cannot afford care for their children during
the day. While there are no formal classes as such—the program consisting
of activities only—the center has much in common with other types of
schools, and some problems uniquely its own.
The architects, speaking of the program, say this, "the center was de-
signed to accommodate 80 children between the ages of two and ten. In
many ways, the requirements were similar to those of a kindergarten-ele-
mentary school. However, since the emphasis is on the activity program,
the classroom spaces were designed for variable uses, adaptable to needs
as they occur. This is in accordance with the multiple activity concepts of
present-day child care. All rooms contain built-in work tables and ample
storage areas. Through the use of folding doors, rooms may be divided for
certain activities such as afternoon naps, or combined into larger spaces.
“Each of the classrooms has direct access to the outdoor play areas,
which are located as far as possible from the street. The building was zoned
to allow noisy functions to take place in one area while quieter activities
are going on in another. In order to create what seemed like the proper en-
vironment for the children, the center was designed as a bright, orderly,
clean space.”
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Special School:
3. INDIVIDUALIZED TEACHING FOR GIFTED CHILDREN
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City and Country School
LOCATION:
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
ARCHITECTS:
Begrow & Brown
MECHANICAL &
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER:
Robert G. Caughey
CONTRACTOR:
Beckner Construction Co.
Robert Earl Cardoff photos
The special considerations in the design of a school for gifted children are
no fewer than those present in schools for children with physical, moral, or
mental problems. In the school shown here, only children with very high
IQ's or unusual talents are admitted. At present, the curriculum runs from
kindergarten through the eighth grade, but eventually it will be expanded
to include high school. In discussing the characteristics of the school, the
architects say, "teaching is highly individualized and advancement in the
grades is based on individual progress. In order to accomplish the close
supervision for such a program, there are 22 teachers for the 240 pupils.
* As the buildings projected in the master plan are constructed, the school
will gradually take on a campus atmosphere, with а number of hexagonal
classroom clusters—of varying types—grouped around common recreational
areas and the auditorium. Classrooms themselves are self-contained. Each
has its own toilet and dressing room. Between each pair of classrooms is a
common work and conference room. Some pairs are provided with sliding
partitions, permitting large groupings of children. The hexagon was chosen
for classroom floor plans because we felt it gave the maximum useful teach-
ing space for the floor area enclosed. The domes were constructed of steel
sections radiating from the center and tied together with tension rings of
Steel channels."
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Texas State School for the Deaf
LOCATION:
Austin, Texas
ARCHITECTS:
Fehr & Granger and Niggli &
Gustafson
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS:
Wilson & Cottingham
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
Blum & Guerrero
CONTRACTOR:
Yarbrough Construction Co.
This school trains elementary, junior high, and high school children, who
are normal in every way, except that each has a communication problem
caused by faulty, reduced, or total lack of hearing. The problems in the
design of a school such as this are those common to any boarding school
for young children. In addition, there are those problems caused by the
need to give much of the instruction by non-aural methods and to impart
communicative skills to those who lack the use of the major receptor for
communication. Of the school, the architects say, “In addition to their com-
munication problems, the children who come here undergo considerable
emotional strain upon leaving their families and homes. We felt it to be
desirable, therefore, to provide a design which would be as ‘non-institution-
al’ as possible, yet at the same time achieve low-maintenance structures.
“Each cottage houses 12 to 16 children and their houseparents. Children
are assigned to the cottages according to age. А considerable amount of
auditory training equipment had to be provided for, to enable the teaching
of communication to children by several methods. Children who have be-
come deaf after acquiring some degree of speech facility, or those with
some hearing left, are largely taught with amplified sound and hearing
aids. Those who are more profoundly deaf are helped to develop speech
through lip reading. The children who cannot bridge the communication
gap using the methods mentioned are placed in special classes where man-
ual alphabets and sign language are used."
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
179
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5. TRAINING FACILITY FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED
Austin State School
LOCATION:
Austin, Texas
ARCHITECTS:
Fehr & Granger
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS:
Wilson & Cottingham
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
Blum & Guerrero
CONTRACTOR:
Archie С. Fitzgerald
The building shown here houses approximately 100 children between the
ages of eight and fourteen. These children are classified as hyperactive—
severely retarded, which is to say that they are extremely active physically,
but are incapable of dressing or feeding themselves, and are not toilet
trained. Naturally, the schooling of these children is not primarily con-
cerned with academic subjects, but rather with the barest fundamentals
of caring for themselves. Some very special problems are apparent in what
the architects of this building say about it, “опе of the biggest problems
was the extreme difficulty of providing a building which could be kept clean
and sanitary for the health and safety of these children.
“Since the children, for the most part, are as happy on the hard floor
as on comfortable furniture, we used radiant heating in the floor slab. For
sanitary reasons, floor drains are provided in most of the rooms; these have
flush valve controls, located in the walls. For odor removal, rooms were
placed for maximum amount of cross-ventilation and a mechanical exhaust
system was installed. Bathing the children is a big problem. We installed
three types of fixtures—ordinary hospital emergency baths, a low-walled
shower with sprays, and a stainless steel wash tub with a water closet
waste. All of these allow nurses to move freely around to assist the children
in bathing. These children put anything small and movable in their mouths,
so play courts are hard surfaced with no planting or grass."
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Special School:
Lawrence S. Williams photos
6. EDUCATION FOR MULTIPLE-HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
The Woods Schools Child Study
Treatment, and Research Center
LOCATION:
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
ARCHITECTS:
Salmon & Salmon
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER:
M. W. Isenberg
MECHANICAL ENGINEER:
William P. Henszey
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT:
George Patton
CONTRACTOR:
Jack Steele Construction Co.
The Center shown here is one element of the Woods Schools, a private, non-
sectarian institution for children with multiple handicaps. After diagnosis
and treatment in the Center, children are placed in various other sections
of the institution for education according to their needs. The Center also
has research facilities, a training program for workers in this field, and a
consulting service for parents. Regarding the planning of this facility, the
architects say, “to satisfy the basic demands of the program, the Center
incorporates many diverse facilities under one roof. For the first time, it
is now possible to obtain diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and counseling
of parents of multiple handicapped children at one place.
“The structure was designed as four separate elements interconnected
with glass-enclosed corridor links. Children—who may be physically, as
well as mentally, retarded—use only the main floors of the units. The rolling
site permitted units of from one to three stories, providing variety in mass-
ing. Many special facilities are incorporated into the scheme. Among them
is an acoustically treated testing room for study and correction of speech
and hearing defects. Two child therapy rooms are provided. Between these
is a central movie and recording studio. From here, recordings—and
through one-way vision glass, movies—are made of children’s activities at
various times during their treatment. These are used for evaluation of
progress. All other rooms where children are treated or observed are
equipped with microphones permitting the making of recordings."
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Special School:
Alexandre Georges photos
7. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL AND CONVENT
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
LOCATION:
Florissant, Missouri
ARCHITECTS:
Hellmuth, Obata &
Kassabaum, Inc.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
Ferris & Hamig
CONTRACTOR:
Lecoutour Construction Co.
The problems involved in the design of a Catholic high school, such as St.
Thomas Aquinas, have much in common with those in the design of a public
school. However, in the Catholic school, it is necessary to provide for re-
ligious education and worship, and in this case a convent for the nuns who
teach here. Regarding the school, the architects have this to say, “‘the pro-
gram called for a complete high school, with a convent and small chapel.
The school must provide for a student body of 1000 initially and expansion
to 1800 in five years.
“We designed a campus plan with seven major buildings grouped around
a central plaza. This theme is repeated in the smaller courtyards and plazas
incorporated into the individual buildings. A feature of the school will be
the special functions building. Here will be the student library, lounge, and
social center. There will be a bookstore, student publication office, band
and music rooms, and four small classrooms for special and advanced class-
es. On either side of this building will be two-story classroom buildings.
Each will contain 25 classrooms, offices, a library, and a project room.
“The gymnasium, located opposite the classrooms across the plaza, will
serve as an auditorium for the present. The convent houses 40 nuns. With
only narrow strip windows on the exterior, the convent turns in on itself
to a central court, thus establishing the desired mood and insuring privacy."
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The chapel (left, top) is hexagonal in
shape. It has a raised lantern sky-
light which admits a shaft of natural
light downward to the central altar.
The chapel is connected with the con-
vent by an enclosed walk containing
the sacristy and confessionals. Left,
middle: view of the interior of the
convent court. Shown are the strip
windows used here and to a lesser ex-
tent on the exterior of the building.
Accommodating 40 nuns, the convent
also contains two guest rooms, three
parlors for visiting with family and
friends, a music room, conference
room, a library, and sewing and laun-
dry rooms. Left, bottom: a view of the
corridor and a typical classroom in a
main classroom building. This room is
adjacent to the interior courtyard
Special School:
8. PROTESTANT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL
The Lovett School
LOCATION:
Atlanta, Georgia
ARCHITECTS:
Aeck Associates
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS:
Chastain & Tindel
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
Lazemby & Borum
ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANTS:
Bolt, Beranek & Newman
CONTRACTOR:
G. F. Howe
Gabriel Benzur photos
This school is operated under the trusteeship of the Episcopal Diocese of
Atlanta. For many years, it had facilities only for the elementary grades.
Having expanded to include secondary classes as well, the school authorities
went ahead with an extensive building program, in spite of limited funds.
Eventually, the school will expand to the total scheme shown in the site plan
and will look like the rendering. The architects say, “the north wing of the
secondary school and the covered walks are under construction and within
three or four years, the physical education building and library will be
built. In the meantime, the school is without a gym and part of the central
building is used for a library.
“We wanted to spend what funds were available on quality materials and
mechanical and electrical systems. So we eliminated all interior finishes,
floor coverings, paint, and accoustical ceilings. While this temporarily leaves
much to be desired, we feel that such finish work can very well be done in
the future, while inferior basic materials could never be made any better.
Because of the rugged and rolling terrain, we had to provide, in the original
contract, the steps, drives, and walks necessary for students to circulate
easily between the buildings. But this meant that we had to defer the pro-
vision of proper outdoor recreational and athletic areas. The auditorium is
also used as a chapel. It has cyclorama and stage curtains which are opened
to convert it into a chapel. The acoustics were designed so that no speaker
system is needed."
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 187
Schools
Protestant Elementary and High School
This school is located on a large rolling site in a residential area of Atlanta.
Accordingly, the architects let the plan follow the natural contours of the site
and assume a spread-out, almost casual air. As may be seen in the plan, the
elementary school and the secondary school are separated from each other by
the large administration and auditorium building. The auditorium is also used
as an Episcopal chapel. The library, now located in this building, will
eventually be moved to a separate building located elsewhere on the site
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Architectural Engineering
What are the obstacles to the application of the results of building research, and
how can these results best be made available to those equipped to use them? This
question, itself, is currently being investigated as a research problem by the Build-
ing Research Station, Garston, Herts, England. The staff’s precis of the problem,
presented in the Building Research Station Digest: 1 (second series), is well worth
pondering. Here are a few excerpts:
“The purpose of applied research is not merely the provision of new information:
it is to improve practice in design and execution. New knowledge has to be mas-
tered by practitioners before it can be applied. Much can be done to make the
results of research assimilable, but ultimately the hard work of assimilation lies
with the user.
"It is often remarked that the busy designer or builder has no time to read
or study, that he wants his information in a brief cut-and-dried form, accessible to
quick reference. This attitude is valid only for one type of information—it leaves
out the important distinction between factual data and ideas.
"The preparation of tabulated data, codes, information sheets and other refer-
ence material presupposes a certain technological background of professional or
technical training. Indeed, it can be said that, with this sort of information, a
profession or trade gets the aid appropriate to its technological level. Such data,
however, are simply the everyday working tools . . . Alone they do not bring
about change in methods.
“In traditional industries, new ideas and methods gain ground slowly. In agri-
culture, a century or so ago, it was said that a new technique spread through the
English countryside at the rate of about a mile a year. In building, of course, the
pattern of change is more complex: spectacular innovation and development occur
alongside conservatism . . . All such change is the consequence of new ideas and
methods being assimilated into the tradition."
Considerable hue and cry has gone up in the general press concerning the sizes of
the theaters and halls being designed for Lincoln Center in New York. The ques-
tion being asked is why the audience capacities are less than for halls already in
existence. General Maxwell D. Taylor, new president of Lincoln Center, gave the
reasons in a recent talk: “The blunt fact is this: the halls whose capacities are
greater are not necessarily the best halls for the performance nor the enjoyment
of the arts . . . A theater for dance and operetta requires different dimensions
than a hall for orchestra music, and an opera house should differ from these [and
so on] .. . The theater and concert hall of tomorrow has a responsibility to
the electronic audience that will outnumber its capacity by tens of thousands to
one. How music sounds in this hall will be heard in millions of recordings, in tens
of millions of living rooms via radio and television." | For a discussion of the effect
of size, shape and materials on the acoustics of concert halls and multi-purpose
auditoriums see the article “Auditorium Acoustics For Music Performance" by
Russell Johnson of Bolt Beranek and Newman in the December AE section ].
A while back, a series of Sally Victor hats achieved status of a sort by being pat-
terned after architectural themes. Now word comes from a Canadian publication
called Elizabethan via the New York World-Telegram & Sun that engineers in
construction have taken to embellishing their hard hats with all sorts of ornamen-
tation presumably to gain status of a different sort. The description: “Not ordi-
nary safety helmets, mind you, but bonnets with such 'brash assertiveness' they
almost defy description." Hats with mysterious lugs and eyebolts, metal scrap,
Arctic earflaps, forehead comforters. One hard hat manufacturer may even rival
Sally Victor: for career lady engineers, chartreuse picture hats trimmed with
resinous forget-me-nots.
FACTORY-PRODUCED PLYWOOD COMPONENTS, p. 190. ROOF MOUNTED
HEAT PUMPS SOLVE MULTI-ZONE PROBLEM, y. 196. BUILDING COMPO-
NENTS: Food Service Equipment, p. 203, Products, p. 207, Literature, p. 208.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 189
Architectural Engineering
COMPONENT SPAN RANGES
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FACTORY-BUILT PLYWOOD COMPONENTS
by Howard P. Vermilya, A.I.A.
Engineered plywood components are a relatively recent addition to the archi-
tect’s design vocabulary, but the signs point to their becoming a byword. New
types of components, improved engineering and fabricating techniques, and
an industry-wide quality control program are making plywood structural
members as versatile and reliable as other factory-produced structural materials.
The stressed skin panel, the first
engineered plywood component to be
developed, dates back to the early
thirties and the Forest Product Lab-
oratory's then-new recognition of
the “racking” properties or dia-
phragm action of plywood. Since
then, the Douglas Fir Plywood As-
sociation, which began research in
the field at about the same time, has
developed a wide variety of struc-
tural elements designed to take full
advantage of plywood's ability to
resist flexural and shear forces. Full-
size components have been tested to
failure. Engineering data and design
manuals have been prepared. Tech-
niques of fabrication have been stud-
ied, tested and formulated. Specifica-
tions have been drawn to control the
materials, the production methods
and conditions, and the inspection
and test procedures.
Much of this specialized informa-
tion on component fabrication was
freely distributed to the construction
industry through architects and en-
gineers. But even so, it became in-
creasingly apparent to the plywood
association that a critical problem
existed involving production facili-
ties, the specialized nature of the
engineering, and the possibility that
without proper care in workmanship,
fabrication or engineering, the per-
formance of plywood components
would be questionable. At the same
time, more complicated components,
and more sophisticated combina-
tions, were coming into extensive use
in constructing floors, walls, roofs
and even entire structures, making
it vitally important for the architect
to be able to rely on the quality of
the materials—lumber, plywood and
glue, and upon the quality of the
workmanship.
For this reason, DFPA two years
ago set up Plywood Fabricators
Service, Inc., an affiliate whose pro-
gram is designed to provide a uni-
form standard of fabrication and the
quality controls necessary to en-
courage the use of engineered ply-
wood components. Before being per-
mitted to use the trademarks indi-
cating compliance with the DFPA's
specifications, fabricators licensed by
PFS must qualify in general cate-
gories based on the quality of fabri-
cation required: Nail-gluing or pres-
sure-gluing; interior or exterior end
use; and standard or critical appli-
cations. (“Critical components are
190 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
those involving long spans or high
design loads: the PFS inspector
must examine each lot and himself
apply the trademark.) In addition,
the fabricator must qualify to pro-
duce each type of component, the
qualification being controlled by the
general categories mentioned. Basic
to any qualification at all is a survey
of the fabrication facilities and con-
tinuing laboratory tests of glue bonds
and fabricating techniques.
Box Beams
The box beam, which was developed
under the stimulus of the war-time
steel shortage, is a typical example
of the engineered plywood compo-
nent. Here plywood and lumber are
combined in a lightweight section
designed to use each material most
effectively. Solid lumber is used for
the flanges because of its axial
strength, while plywood is used as a
web because of its ability to resist
shear. The section consists of one or
more (usually two or more) vertical
plywood webs glued to lumber
flanges which are separated along
the beam's length by vertical lumber
spacers. These spacers function as
stiffeners to prevent web buckling
and distribute concentrated loads.
The assembly is glued under pres-
sure using clamps or presses, which
requires the closely controlled condi-
tions usually found in a factory and
not at the site. Nail-gluing is accept-
able on only the simplest sections.
Stressed skin panels, which offer the advantages of economy,
strength and fast erection are used as structural coverings
for floors, walls and roofs, are probably the most adaptable
of the components. For the roof below, 4-ft wide panels laid
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Box beams consisting of vertical plywood webs pressure-glued
to lumber flanges are capable of spanning distances up to 120
ft. A basic and highly versatile component, they are often
used in combination with other plywood components or with
Detail shows typical box beam: vertical
plywood webs for shear resistance glued
to lumber flanges for axial strength.
Flanges are separated at intervals by
vertical spaces which function as stiffen-
ers to prevent web buckling and distrib-
ute concentrated loads. Details above
right indicate various beam sections that
may be used. When flange cross section
requires lumber with a least dimension
greater than 2-in., flanges must be lami-
nated from lumber 2-in. thick or less
—
SCARF JOINT IN PLYWOOD WEB
SCARF JOINT IN LUMBER —
BUTT JOINT BETWEEN
PLYWOOD WEBS
LUMBER
BEARING
STIFFENER——
PLYWOOD WEB
i RE
plywood panels to form floors and roofs. The nine 36-ft beams
shown above were used with plywood deck to roof a small,
low cost school. Murray School, Dublin, Calif.; Architect:
Aitken and Collin
TYPICAL BEAM
CROSS SECTIONS
PLYWOOD
ri WEB
PLYWOOD
SPLICE
PLATE
LUMBER STIFFENER
GLUE JOINT
LUMBER FLANGE
LUMBER STIFFENER
NAILING AS REQUIRED FOR GLUING
TYPICAL BOX BEAM
over box beams serve as both deck and finish ceiling. Typical
panels have %-in. plywood top skins and *%-in. bottom skins.
Ribs are 2 by 4 and 1 by 4 lumber. Penn-Jersey Co-op Super-
market Addition, Phillipsburg, N. J. Engineer: Heikki K. Elo
PLYWOOD SPLICE PLATE
BUTT JOINT BETWEEN
PLYWOOD SKIN PANELS
STRINGER SET OUT
TO FORM TONGUE N
AS REQUIRED
VENTILATION OPENINGS
LUMBER HEADERS
VENT HOLES
STRINGER SET IN TO FORM GROOVE
LUMBER HEADER
MAY BE CONTINUOUS
OR AS SHOWN ON
OPPOSITE END
SCARF JOINT IN
LOWER SKIN
LUMBER STRINGERS
LUMBER BLOCKING (NOT REQ.
IF PRE-SPLICED SKINS USED)
CHAMFER EDGE OF PANEL TO
FORM "V" JOINT IN LOWER
PANEL (OPTIONAL)
TYPICAL STRESSED SKIN PANEL
Essentially a box beam laid flat, the stressed skin panel consists of longitudinal
stringers to which a top and bottom skin are bonded so that the whole assembly acts
as a unit. The plywood skins then are the flanges for a series of I-beams—or T-beams
if only one skin is used—while the stringers carry the shear. The lateral framing
members serve only as headers or as blocking
A relatively new version of the stressed-skin panel is the space plane, a folded plate
with non-parallel chords. The radial folded plate roof above was erected in less
than a day. AA Headquarters Building, Tucson, Ariz. Architect: Arthur Brown
In the larger sections the box beam
is capable of spanning over 100 feet.
It is a basic structural component,
for it may be combined with compo-
nents such as stressed skin panels
or with plywood panels to provide
floor or roof. It may serve as a rafter
or purlin, or it can be formed as a
bent. It may also be tapered or
curved and cantilevers are routine.
Stressed Skin Panels
In these structural coverings for
floors, walls or roofs, longitudinal
framing members serve as stringers.
The skins are usually bonded one to
each side of the stringer to form a
series of "I" beams. When only one
skin is bonded to the stringer, the
skin becomes the flange of a series
of "T" beams. (See “Stressed Skin
Plywood Panels," by William J. Le-
Messurier and Albert G. H. Dietz,
Time-Saver Standards, ARCHITECT-
192 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
URAL RECORD, October 1954.)
Stressed skin panels may be fabri-
cated by nail-gluing or pressure-glu-
ing. The latter gives better appear-
ance because of the absence of nail
heads and is more efficient when
presses or clamps are used in a fac-
tory. The panels may also be of sand-
wich construction, using a honey-
comb, foamed plastic or other ma-
terial as the core between the ply-
wood skins.
The action of the stressed skin
panel is similar to that of a box beam
laid flat. Where the edges between
panels are adequately fastened, these
panels can transmit stresses to the
walls or ground, greatly increasing
the rigidity of the structure. In walls,
the skins effectively resist racking,
but stressed skin panels in general
are designed to resist flexural forces
applied perpendicular to whatever
shear is involved. They may be used
as а basic element in a folded plate
design, but generally are used for
floors or roofs, often in conjunction
with the box beam or with delta
frames.
The panels should be ventilated
but may contain insulation, electrical
wiring, heating and sprinkler pipes
or ducts, often inserted at the time of
fabrication. Skins and lumber fram-
ing may be scarf jointed or butt
joints with splice plates may be used
in the skins.
Curved Panels
Curved panels are ideal for roof con-
struction because of their light
weight and high strength and be-
cause of their design possibilities in
single or multiple use. They will span
as much as 32 ft or more, but spans
up to 24 ft are most practical.
Three different types of curved
panels are available:
1. The ribbed, stressed skin panel
using a curved stringer usually made
from laminated plywood strips;
2. The solid core panel, a plywood
sheet lamination; and
3. A sandwich core panel.
They can be designed for use with
or without tie-rods, but require the
sidewalls or side beam-to-wall con-
nection to be designed for horizontal
deflection. A fourth possibility is a
curved section, designed as a thin-
shelled vault in which the beam ac-
tion built into the curved section
eliminates the need for the usual
supporting beam.
Fabrication is simplified by the
use of presses: either a chain clamp
press using a male form or a curve
platen hot press with heating strips
in the rib area. The panels are usu-
ally 48-inches long and joined with
tongue-and-grooved or shiplap con-
nections.
Folded Plates
Folded plate roofs may be conven-
tionally framed and sheathed with
plywood, but many are designed to
use plywood structural components.
These may be divided into two class-
es:
1. Where box beams are the main
supports and the individual folds are
designed as stressed skin panels.
2. Where the plates themselves are
designed as giant box beams and act
as diaphrams, thereby eliminating
large valley beams.
The folded plate lends itself to
many roof designs, either single bay
or multiple bays. It is capable of
SCARF JOINT IN PLYWOOD FACE PLYWOOD UPPER FACE
NAILING OR STAPLING
AS REQUIRED FOR GLUING
INSULATION
(OPTIONAL)
SET IN EDGE MEMBER TO FORM GROOVE
SET OUT EDGE ge OF CURVATURE
MEMBER TO FORM
TONGUE OF TONGUE
& GROOVE JOINT
PLYWOOD LOWER FACE "SOFFIT"
CANT
LUMBER RIBS MAY BE b
USED IF DESIRED PLYWOOD PANEL
LUMBER HEADERS PLYWOOD LAMINATED
RIBS (LAMINATED & /
CURVED PRIOR ТО
PANEL ASSEMBLY) ` SOFFIT SUPPORTING BEAM
NAILING THRU BLOCKING
TYPICAL PANEL
INSTALLATION DETAIL
TYPICAL PANEL USING CURVED PLYWOOD RIBS
SCARF JOINT IN PLYWOOD WIRE STAPLES AS REQUIRED FOR GLUING
PLYWOOD UPPER FACE
GLUE JOINT WIRE STAPLES AS
REQ'D FOR STAPLING
PLYWOOD CORE
SET OUT TO
FORM TONGUE
OF TONGUE &
GROOVE JOINT
PLYWOOD CORE SET IN TO
FORM GROOVE
TIGHT BUTT JOINT IN PLYWOOD
CORE, UNLESS SCARF JOINT REQ'D
PLYWOOD PANEL
PLYWOOD LOWER FACE "SOFFIT" СОВЕ RADIUS
TYPICAL PANEL USING SOLID PLYWOOD CORE
SCARF JOINT IN PLYWOOD PLYWOOD UPPER FACE
EDGE MEMBERS & HEAD-
LUMBER EDGE MEMBER ERS MAY BE PLYWOOD
SET OUT TO FORM
TONGUE
RESIN-IMPREGNAT'D
PAPER HONEYCOMB ¢
CORE
———LUMBER EDGE MEMBER SET IN
TO FORM GROOVE OF TONGUE
& GROOVE JOINT
PANEL RADIUS
b:
LUMBER READERS GLUE JOINT SPREAD ON BOTH
PLYWOOD FACES
SCARF JOINT IN PLYWOOD PLYWOOD LOWER FACE "SOFFIT"
TYPICAL PANEL USING PAPER HONEYCOMB CORE
Curved stressed skin panels are a natural for
roof structures because their arching action
permits the spanning of great distances with
relatively thin cross sections. Three different
panels are available: the ribbed panel (photo
right), which is similar to the typical stressed
skin panel except that the stringers are
curved; the solid core panel, a plywood sheet
lamination; and the sandwich core panel. All
can be used with or without tie-rods. A fourth
possibility, the thin shell vault, has the beam
action built into the curved section. The
curved panel roof shown in the photo se-
quence (above right) consists of 4-ft wide
arches with male and female edge joints nailed
and glued into beveled ridges in the laminated
supporting beams. Junt Jr. High School Gym-
nasium, Tacoma, Wash. Architect: Robert
Billsborough Price
NAILING AS REQUIRED FOR GLUING
PLYWOOD PEAK
LUMBER DIAGONALS
GUSSET EACH SIDE
OVERHANG
PLYWOOD HEEL
GUSSET EACH SIDE
SET IN GUSSETS FROM LUMBER
APPROX. 1/8"
LOWER CHORD
LUMBER
OVERHANG
NAILS DRIVEN THRU
& CLINCHED PER-
PENDICULAR TO
DIRECTION OF
LUMBER PIECE
(DOUBLE SHEAR)
LUMBER DIAGONAL
LOWER CHORD SPLICE PLATE
(PLYWOOD EACH SIDE)
LUMBER
CHORDS
EACH SIDE
DETAIL SHOWING NAILED GUSSET
(NO GLUING REQUIRED)
TYPICAL NAIL-GLUED TRUSS
When used as truss joint connectors, plywood gusset plates add strength and rigid-
ity, and reduce weight. Used on both sides of a joint, they also eliminate eccentricity,
the major cause of twisting. Depending on the roof slope and span, trusses with
nail-glued gussets may be of several designs, including the “W” truss shown
spanning large spaces and may be
assembled with nails alone.
A recent addition to the language
of folded plate roofs is the “space
plane." Whereas the ordinary folded
plate roof has parallel chords and is
composed of rectangular members of
regular dimensions, the space plane
is characterized by having non-paral-
lel chords that may or may not in-
tersect. The radial folded plate is the
simplest illustration of this princi-
ple.
Trusses
Trussed rafters with plywood gusset
plates may be of several designs, de-
pending upon the roof slope, the ceil-
ing desired and the span. The ply-
wood web roof-frame in which ply-
wood webs replace intermediate sup-
ports, is used on low pitches (1/12)
for spans from 20 ft-8 in. to 28 ft-8
in. and with sloped ceilings (3/12
pitch on the roof and a 1.5/12 ceil-
ing) for spans from 20 ft-8 in. to 28
ft-8 in. with 2 by 4’s and spans up to
32 ft-8 in. with 2 by 6 chords. The
king post is used for slopes from
2/12 to 4/12, with 2 by 4 chords for
spans of 18 ft to 24 ft-8 in., and with
2 by 6’s for spans up to 32 ft-8 in. The
nail-glued “W” truss for slopes over
2/12 is designed for spans of from
20 ft-8 in. to 28 ft-8 in. using 2 by 4
chords and up to 40 ft-8 in. using 2
by 6’s.
Since these trusses have rigidly
connected joints, their design is
based upon actual loading tests of
194 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
full-sized members. All are designed
for a load of at least 40 lbs per sq ft
of horizontal projection (15 psf dead
load and 25 psf live load). The king
post and the 2 by 4 “W” trusses are
designed for 50 psf with 3/12 pitch
and 60 psf with 4/12 pitch. АП de-
signs are based on 24 in. o. c. spacing
and are nail-glued.
Certain recent technical advances
in truss fabrication are making pos-
sible economical production of
trusses with pressure-glued gusset
plates. These appear to be much
stronger than nail-glued trusses and
are becoming more widely available.
Trofdek
Trofdek, a patented panel developed
in England, is a parallel arrange-
ment of “troughs” fabricated from
plywood webs and lumber flanges. It
resembles a miniature folded plate
with troughs that function as sloped-
webbed box beams and are designed
as such. It can carry design loads
ranging from 10 to 20 times its own
weight over clear spans up to 50 feet,
but its most advantageous spans will
range from 28 to 40 feet, which is
farther than is usually practical
with stressed skin panels. Five
standard sections are available, but
nonstandard sections can be de-
signed using box beam methods.
The standard sizes are 16, 32 and
48-in. widths with 9.31, 11.62 and
13.5-in. depths, and 19.2 and 38.4-in.
widths with 15.6 and 17.10-in.
depths. Standard lengths are in mul-
tiples of two feet.
Trofdek may be fabricated by ei-
ther nail-giuing or pressure-gluing,
with the latter preferable for appear-
ance when the deck is left open on
the bottom. It can be laid on straight
flat supports, pitched supports or
curved supports which may be walls,
girders, box beams or trusses. It may
be used for floors or roofs with the
bottom open or surfaced, and the
spaces between webs may be used
for lighting, as well as for insulation
and the usual services.
The panels may also be used for
temporary or permanent concrete
form work, the reinforcing being laid
between the webs forming the upper
troughs. When left in place, they pro-
vide a finish ceiling and an effective
means of fastening. If removed, they
give the concrete a striking ribbed
design.
Delta Frames
The delta structure uses a number of
types of stressed skin panels and box
beams in its assembly. Rigid bents
composed of two tapered box beams
form the predominant delta shape,
and additional tapered beams canti-
lever from each side of this bent,
partially balancing moments that
would otherwise be quite large.
Stressed skin panels, curved panels,
Trofdek or folded plate roofs may be
used to span between the frames.
The delta frame is capable of as
many as 608 variations for use in
utility structures where economy is
desired. The frames also have design
potential for use in schools, churches
and other structures, and can be
used in combination with other com-
ponents in either square, rectangular
or circular buildings. The cantilev-
ered sides may be omitted, used on
one side only or propped up to in-
crease their widths.
Delta frames may be of various
sizes. An illustration of what is pos-
sible would be a structure with the
frames resting on 5-ft concrete piers
and the bents rising at a slope of 45
degrees, forming a span of 40 ft and
а ceiling height of 25 ft as in the
prototype shown at right. The sides
could then cantilever out another 8
to 28 ft. The bay spacing between
frames could be 12 ft, 16 ft, 20 ft or
24 ft, and the structure could consist
of any number of bays, thus lending
itself to expansion when additional
space is required.
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The structure shown above is the DFPA-built prototype
of the "delta frame,” a rigid bent composed of two tapered
box beams with additional tapered box beams cantilevered
from each side. The photo above left shows the first of the
Trofdek, a miniature version of the folded plate, consists of
thin sheets of plywood glued to light lumber stiffeners to form
a series of troughs. The resulting roof or floor component is
extremely light weight but capable of carrying loads of from
10 to 20 times its own weight over clear spans up to 50 ft.
At right, it serves as structural roof and finished ceiling.
Heath Ceramics Company warehouse, Sausalito, California
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four 40-ft span A-sections that form the skeleton. At right
above, the wing beams are joined to the bent with large ply-
wood gussets. Play Shelter, Park Lodge Elementary School,
Tacoma, Washington
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ROOF-MOUNTED HEAT PUMPS
SOLVE MULTI-ZONE PROBLEM
Adding a three-building complex to the Canoga Park, California, plant
of Atomics International, Division of North American Aviation, Inc.,
posed problems in multiple zoning and flexibility. Albert C. Martin
& Associates, Architect-Engineers, studied six solutions and selected
modular combinations of stock heat pump sizes to serve 76 separate
zones in the plant. Moveable partitions in conjunction with adaptable
ductwork throughout make future interior changes easy. General Con-
tractor was С. L. Peck Construction & Realty Co.
Unlike air conditioning an cffice
building where cooling and heating
loads vary predictably with the sun
and seasons, air conditioning indus-
trial buildings can be an ever chang-
ing, complex, control and distribu-
tion problem. Industrial buildings,
often keyed to new technologies, have
to be designed for rapid, economical
changes. Industrial air conditioning
systems must be flexible; and posi-
tive ventilation is a requirement not
only for human comfort but for
safety as well.
In the design of an air condition-
ing system for two, two-story build-
ings and one single-story structure
comprising a new 250,000-sq ft addi-
tion to facilities of Atomics Interna-
tional division of North American
Aviation, Inc, emphasis was even
more than usual on providing a flexi-
ble system. The new plant in Canoga
Park, California, had to be adaptable
and re-adaptable at will. All parti-
tions, except in radioactivity lab
areas, had to be moveable. Offices
might become research labs, research
labs might change from projects at
ordinary temperatures to high or
low temperature experiments, or
from research to production activity.
Aerial view of Canoga Park, California, plant of Atomies
International, Division of North American Aviation, Inc.
Three new buildings at left, recently added to manufacturing
plant, right, on 80-acre site, comprise 76 separate heating-
cooling zones. Roof of new laboratory building, top center,
also carries round ductwork system exhausting radioactivity
196 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
areas and terminating in absolute filters. Helicopter landing
pad is shown on roof of engineering and office building at
left. Single-story structure, center, is service building housing
cafeteria and lounges. Basementless buildings are on cast-in-
place friction piles. Framing is reinforced concrete. Walls
are reinforced concrete block. Roof is built up tar on steel
The air conditioning system had to
be able to respond as heat load condi-
tions or ventilation requirements
changed anywhere in the facility.
Packaged Flexibility
Packaged equipment of large capac-
ity is offering designers one method
of dividing up such a problem into
zone segments and then simply
matching available packaged units to
the specific load condition present in
each zone.
Albert C. Martin & Associates, ar-
chitects and engineers for the new
AI facility, used the divide-and-con-
quer approach to the 1050-ton total
air conditioning load calculated for
the Canoga Park plant. The result
was a complex of 76 zones served by
76 separate roof-mounted air-to-air
heat pump systems, each tailored to
meet the design needs of the zone
served, and each capable of being ex-
panded should load requirements
change.
Capacities of the heat pumps
varied from a single five-ton unit
supplying one of the zones in the sin-
gle story personnel service building,
to a 24-ton combination supplying
one of the research zones in the labo-
ratory building. Factory assembled
units were built for the specific need
each was to meet. Four basic com-
pressor sizes—3, 5, 7.5, and 10 hp—
were combined as needed with three
different coil sizes, in four different
cabinet sizes.
In some zones, where winter and
summer loads were balanced, the
packaged units were set up as heat
pumps. In other cases, where the
seasonal loads varied, the units
might comprise two or three com-
pressors in a heat pump arrange-
ment with an additional two or three
compressors to supply the extra ca-
pacity for summer loads.
In one area in the laboratory build-
ing, for example, zone 27, the pack-
age contains a heat pump circuit of
seven-ton capacity and an additional
cooling circuit with a 10-ton capac-
ity. During the summer there are
four stages totaling 17 tons available
for cooling, and in the winter only
the seven-ton heating capacity is run.
Zone 26, serving an immediately
adjacent lab area, has 12 tons of
heat pump capacity and an additional
seven tons of cooling capacity. Four
cooling stages totaling 19 tons are
available in the summer in this zone
and two heating stages (12 tons) in
stages specificed by the department:
Not Only Flexibility
Flexibility was not the only require-
ment set down by Atomics Interna-
tional's plant engineering depart-
ment in the preliminary design stage.
The unitary approach also resulted in
a number of other important advan-
tages specified by the department:
Reliability : Since most of the labora-
tory areas involve use of toxic, odor-
ous, flammable, and/or radioactive
materials, the continuing function-
ing of the system must be assured.
With multiple packaged units, even
if the entire refrigerant system in
one of the packages fails, the blowers
can operate independently to main-
tain air pressure required for proper
exhaust.
Accessibility: Roof mounting
makes maintenance easy, prevents
building routine from being inter-
rupted when adjustments are need-
ed; eliminates problems of admitting
service personnel to restricted areas
in the plant.
Space saving: Putting the me-
chanical equipment on the roof
meant that space normally lost to
mechanical equipment rooms was
available for productive use; the
only interior floor space occupied by
the systems was shaftway space four
feet square on top floors for each two
zones in two-story buildings.
Economy: First cost of the pack-
aged heat pump system was more
than $200,000 below that of conven-
tional systems considered. Heat
pumps eliminated need for a separate
heating system. Careful sizing of
equipment and favorable co-efficient
of performance of the heat pumps
promised savings in operating costs.
Data accumulated so far indicate
costs are as favorable as the design
study projected. Due to the light
weight of the equipment, minimum
amounts of special roof bracing and
platforms were required. Using pack-
aged equipment virtually eliminated
refrigerant piping in the field, and
air cooled equipment saved the cost
of water piping and cooling towers.
Comparative Costs
Since roof mounting eliminated sev-
eral thousand square feet of covered
building space normally set aside to
Architectural Engineering
Scientist operating a remotely controlled vac-
uum furnace in laboratory. Flexible tubing
carries furnace exhaust to filtering system on
roof, but furnace walls add greatly to cooling
load in this area
Battery of moveable electric furnaces add to
cooling load in this zone today, perhaps an-
other tomorrow, putting new demands on flexi-
bility of air conditioning system. Labs are
furnished with seven, color-coded, piped utili-
ties: Hot water, cold water, chilled water, dis-
tilled water, compressed air, natural gas, and
vacuum. Mains are on outside first floor walls.
Branches run horizontally to bays, vertically to
second floor. Electrical services, handled simi-
larly, provide 120-volt single phase and 480-
volt three phase current.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 197
Architectural Engineering
house mechanical equipment, esti-
mates made by A. C. Martin & Asso-
ciates showed a saving of more than
$1.40 per sq ft available with the
heat pump approach compared to a
central project air conditioning sys-
tem with 20 per cent reserve capacity.
Packaged heat pumps offered an
advantage of at least $1.10 per sq ft
over central systems with no stand-
by capacity in each individual build-
ing. A comparison of installed costs
of six approaches to this design prob-
lem showed packaged heat pumps
lowest by at least fifty cents a square
foot.
Design Conditions
Summer: The conditioned areas are
maintained at 80 F dry bulb and 50
per cent relative humidity continu-
ously. Design was based on a sum-
mer outside temperature of 100 F
dry bulb and 72 F wet bulb with a
wind velocity of eight mph.
Winter: In the winter the condi-
tioned areas are maintained at 72 F
dry bulb with an outside design con-
dition of 30 F dry bulb and a 15 mph
wind velocity.
Control: Temperatures are con-
trolled within two degrees in all
except
areas in executive offices
Lobby entrance joins engineering building, left, with service building. Exterior
block walls are natural desert tan. Windows, used only as a design element in
this project, have sea blue porcelain panels at top and bottom. Roof-mounted
equipment is screened from ground view by dark brown fluted metal decking
Mall between service building and laboratory, right, looking toward engineering
building. Ornamental concrete grilles, left, and slat shading, center, shield cov-
ered walkways reducing heat load and providing shaded passage between buildings
198 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
where control is within 1.5 degrees,
and in the Standards Laboratory
where control is held very closely
within one degree.
Sound: Maximum of 55 decibels
flat response is maintained in most
general areas with the executive area
held at 35 decibels maximum.
Outside air: Maximum amounts
are used wherever possible. Mini-
mum requirements were set at 25 per
cent in non-critical areas, 50 per cent
in executive areas, and 100 per cent
in areas with radioactivity condi-
tions. Return air ducts in radio-
activity areas terminate in ‘‘abso-
lute" filters and air pressures within
those areas are held below those in
surrounding areas to prevent any
outward flow of air into other areas
of the building.
Duct System
For the two new buildings in the AI
facility which were two stories high,
a novel duct system was designed to
provide the shortest possible duct
runs. Shafts with sufficient space for
future duct enlargement were run
from the roof through to the ceiling
of the first floors in the laboratory
and engineering buildings (nine
shafts were required in the labora-
tory building). In general each of
these shafts houses two supply ducts,
serving adjacent zones, and the shaft
itself serves as the return air duct.
Since excessive humidity in the Ca-
noga Park area is no problem, the
supply ducts in the shaftways were
sufficiently insulated by glass fiber
liners installed for noise control.
Partitions
Interior finish of outside walls is
rough painted concrete block. Win-
dows are solar screen glass. Move-
able partitions inside are two-foot
wide gypsum sandwich panels fitted
toung-and-groove edge to edge. Pan-
els are made up of 54-inch gypsum
board glued on each side of a 1-inch
gypsum core. Panels are held top and
bottom in aluminum channel bolted
to ceiling and floor. Channel and
panels can be easily relocated.
Through-bolts and backing boards
are used in mounting heavy equip-
ment on walls.
The Canoga Park heat pump sys-
tems provide a flexible, low cost
means of heating and cooling an ex-
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simplifies food service at
new "cloverleaf" hospital
The first general acute hospital in
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In the ground floor kitchen a
STANDARD CONVEYOR Traybelt
(below) simplifies make up of in-
dividual food trays and speeds
them to the Traylift.
As the modern way to efficient
food service, STANDARD CONVEYOR
mechanized dish handling systems
offer many advantages.
By providing a fast and eco-
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they let you locate kitchen and
dish washing areas remote from
dining areas. They allow planning
for efficient service with reduced
personnel requirements. They pro-
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all, they pay for themselves fast
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Many other
models are available to meet a wide variety of food service requirements.
If you have a project pending where you'd
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streamlined dish and tray handling, Bulletin
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needed and general structural requirements.
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Reversible model also allows up-service for food
trays from kitchen to patient floor. Other models
featuring simultaneous up-and-down service, push-
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and completely automatic loading and unloading
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Building Components
Application and Specification of Materials and Equipment
SELECTING FOOD
SERVICE EQUIPMENT
Part 1 of 2
Although the innards of food service facilities are usually planned by a con-
sultant, the overall responsibility for the installation remains with the
architect. Its success depends on his knowledge of the factors that affect the
job to be done and of the general criteria for selecting equipment to do it.
Whether a food service installation is
to be a simple space set aside for
vending machines, such as might be
found in a factory, or a spacious
cafeteria-dining room taking up an
entire floor in an office skyscraper,
its purpose is to process and distrib-
ute food in a sanitary and efficient
manner. Its success depends on the
proper selection of materials and
equipment, and on the application of
certain planning principles early in
the design of the building. In most
large installations, the architect will
retain a food consultant, but he will
be able to contribute more to plan-
ning, and coordinate the work better
if he understands the problems in-
volved.
Space Requirement
1. What type of service is desired?
Before the architect can begin to
consider space allotment for food
areas, he must learn from the client
the type and extent of the service
desired. Does he want formal, sit-
down dining . . . a cafeteria system
. . simple facilities to handle cof-
fee-breaks . . . one, two or three
meals a day ...a combination of
several of these?
2. How many meals a day? How
many people must be served in what
period of time? How will meals be
scheduled? Will there be several
feeding periods?
3. What kind of menu is desired?
Will most customers be executives,
factory workers, men, women or
children? What price range? How
much of a menu selection is desired?
4. What is the most convenient, ac-
cessible location for the food service
area? Does this area conflict with
any other building requirements?
5. What is the food supply situa-
tion? Does the geographic location of
the building permit daily food deliv-
eries? Will baked goods be bought,
NOTE: All details shown are from National
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TABLES AND SHELVES are found in all food preparation areas. Exposed tops should
be in one piece or all seams filled and made smooth. Where top butts adjacent
equipment, it should have integral splashback or rim. All external corners or
angles should be closed and finished smooth. They should be made tight by welding,
tack welding and soldering. Open stand tables with or without cross rails should
be constructed of tubular frame design. Vertical angle frame and cross framing is
not acceptable. Above: Fordham University, Bronx, N. Y. Ben Perlstein, Designer;
H. Friedman & Sons, Fabricator
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or prepared оп the premises? The
supply situation will affect storage
space required.
These are some of the basic ques-
tions which the architect, client, and
food consultant must resolve early in
the planning of space requirements.
In addition, a rule of thumb is some-
times applied: Formal, sit-down res-
taurant—15 sq ft per person; cafe-
teria—1215 sq ft per person; lunch-
eonette service—down to 10 sq ft per
person. These figures refer to the
dining area. The kitchen space re-
quired will vary from 30 to 60 per
cent of the dining space, depending
on the menu and the other factors
noted above.
Layout Requirements
Once a general agreement has been
reached on the space needed for the
particular type of food service de-
sired, а preliminary layout of the
area can be considered. One consult-
ant remarks that the ideal kitchen
layout would be in the shape of a
circle, permitting the staff to come
in at one point and proceed through
the area with no retracing of steps.
There should be no crossing over
from one kitchen section to another,
and one operation should not inter-
fere with another.
Layout not only includes prepara-
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tion and service of food, but also
communications, office space, clean-
ing supplies, garbage disposal, water
and fuel provision, storage and
movement of food and other necessi-
ties, employee locker rooms. A layout
which works well for one operator
will not necessarily solve the prob-
lems of another. However, the Na-
tional Sanitation Foundation Stand-
ard No. 2 for fabricated equipment
makes recommendations for layouts
which will aid sanitation and give an
idea of minimum space require-
ments.
Equipment Selection
Layout will be greatly affected by
selection of equipment—size, type,
and number of units. In any exten-
sive food service installation, most
architects will have the benefit of
a specialist—an independent con-
sultant or someone on their own staff
or on the staff of an equipment man-
ufacturer, although in some cases,
especially on smaller jobs, the archi-
tect may be called on to design and
select the equipment himself.
Food service areas will generally
require both special and/or standard
fabricated equipment and manufac-
tured equipment. Included in fabri-
cated equipment are cafeteria coun-
ters, dish tables, work tables, sinks,
and some types of refrigerators.
Such heavy-duty custom equipment
is often not made until the fabrica-
tor's shop drawings are approved.
Some suppliers, however, have stand-
ard models available from stock lines.
Manufactured equipment, on the oth-
er hand, includes such machine equip-
ment as dish washers, ranges, ovens,
broilers, some carts, fryers, refrig-
erators, and miscellaneous applian-
ces.
In selecting manufactured equip-
ment the architect should consider
general simplicity of design and op-
eration. These characteristics will
cut costs of maintenance and repair,
and be a help to unskilled kitchen
workers. Another important factor
is availability of service.
Specifying fabricated equipment
is a much more detailed job requir-
ing thorough knowledge of design
criteria. Some general points should
be considered in this phase of food
service.
1. Function: What is the piece of
equipment for . . . what job must it
perform . . . what must its dimen-
sions and shape be . . . how do they
affect the overall layout?
2. Sanitation: Are proven design
details which aid sanitation and
cleaning applied in the equipment:
coved corners, absence of crevices,
CABINETS, like other food service equipment, should be of vermin proof con-
struction, with all posts, uprights and so forth of seamless stainless steel
tubing. All doors, drawers and bins should be made removable for easy
cleaning, as should racks for trays or pans. Drawers may be die stamped
or welded and soldered to give seamless, rounded corners. Tops of cabinets
should be sloped where possible to prevent accumulation of dirt and grease
and to allow for easy cleaning. Cabinets for storage of utensils and small
mechanical equipment should be near, or adjacent to, use point. Above:
Clara Maass Memorial Hospital, Belleville, N. J. Raymond B. Flatt, Archi-
tect; S. Blickman, Inc., Food Consultant and Fabricator
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joints welded or sealed off, rounded
edges and corners, accessibility of
parts, removable drawers? Does its
design meet the minimum require-
ments of the National Sanitation
Foundation Code? Does its design
and placement meet local health ordi-
nances? Can it be wall hung? If not,
is it placed at least 3 in. from the
wall?
3. Structural stability: How much
abuse must it take? Are its support-
ing legs and frame braced against
wiggling? Will the top saucer or
belly? Are most connections welded
for strength and cleanability?
4. Appearance: A good-looking in-
stallation costs no more than an un-
sightly one. Attractiveness in the
kitchen and serving area will keep
employees on the job, can be a show-
piece for patrons.
5. Flexibility: Can the unit be used
for other purposes? Can it be moved
easily?
6. Materials: Is the best material
being used, and is it in line with
budget considerations? Because it is
strong, corrosion resistant, easily
cleaned, attractive and can be formed
readily, stainless steel is still consid-
ered the most desirable material for
food equipment. It is considered
mandatory for parts which contact
food, although other materials, in-
cluding aluminum and plastic, are
being used for less demanding appli-
cations such as non-wearing sur-
faces and containers.
Check List for Fabricated
Equipment
Where there are joints,. pieces
should fit together and be perfectly
leveled.
Edges and corners of tables, draw-
ers, sinks and serving equipment
should be welded and polished and
practically invisible. Welding may be
better than forming for very deep
equipment because deep-drawing
thins the metal and subjects it to
stresses.
Fully-enclosed gussets should
eliminate recesses where dirt and
vermin can collect. There should be
no protruding bolts to catch cleaning
cloths.
Fully-enclosed reinforcing chan-
nels should be welded to the under-
side of work-tops. These eliminate
crevices and are easy to clean.
Intersections of tubular members
should have generous fillets, polished
smooth and free of pits or crevices.
Equipment feet should have vibra-
tion dampers for control of noise
and rattle, be adjustable for non-level
floors. Bullet-feet present fewer crev-
ices for dirt catching.
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Drawers should be removable, have
rounded corners for easy cleaning.
Check for overhead suspensions and
roller bearings on sliding doors. Re-
cessed handles will not break off,
eliminate protrusions which might
cause injuries.
Check the manufacturer's follow-
through. A reliable firm supervises
installation at the food area, checks
to be sure equipment fits properly,
and that plumbing, electrical and
other contract work is coordinated
with the food equipment.
The National Sanitation Founda-
tion, with headquarters at the Uni-
versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is
the only group in the country that
has published standards for all types
of food equipment. Most food equip-
ment manufacturers claim to sur-
pass the minimum standards set up
by the Foundation, but the standards
will insure at least a certain mini-
mum level of quality. As a general
practice, many architects include a
reference in food equipment speci-
fications that “аП equipment must
meet, or go beyond, the standards of
the National Sanitation Foundation."
Many architects use design details
that reflect the National Sanitation
Foundation specs. Others use the
National Sanitation Foundation code
as a check.
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SINKS. The overriding factor governing sink construction should be the mainte-
nance of the highest degree of sanitation with the minimum amount of labor. Sinks
should be made of seamless, welded stainless steel with rounded corner construction
throughout to eliminate any possibility of vermin. Sink compartments should be
integral with the dish or wash tables, with all crevices eliminated. Any fixtures
such as strainer baskets, strainer plates, sliding trays, false bottoms, and so forth,
should be of similar contruction and easily removable. They should be heavy enough
to resist both normal wear and anticipated abuse. Right: Connecticut General Life
Insurance Company Building, Hartford, Conn. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Archi-
tect; Arthur Dana, Food Consultant; S. Blickman, Inc., Fabricator
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 205
Building Components
WHAT ARCHITECTS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT BRONZE
by John M. Foehl, Development Engineer, Anaconda American Brass Company
FABRICATION
24. Does the fabrication of bronze
present special problems as compared
to aluminum or stainless steel?
On the contrary, bronze is the eas-
iest to work with, both from the
standpoint of fabrication and finish-
ing.
25. What is the general rule for
sharpness of corner bends on red
brass and Muntz metal when pro-
duced by roll forming or "brake"?
Where copper-alloy sheets are roll-
or brake-formed, the corners will not
be as sharp as those achieved in extru-
sion. As a general rule, with copper
alloys it should be possible to form a
90-degree outside corner with a mini-
mum radius equal to the thickness of
the metal when the gage of the metal
is 14,, in. or less. For metal ranging in
thickness from 14, in. to 1% in., the
minimum radius for a 90-degree out-
side corner will equal the thickness of
the metal plus o in.
26. Does welding or brazing affect the
color of copper metals?
Temperatures required for welding
and brazing will discolor the surfaces
of the metal adjacent to the joints.
This discoloration can be removed by
steel wooling, or by sanding on a belt,
but in extreme cases it may be neces-
sary to first swab the discolored area
with a 5 to 10 per cent solution of
sulfuric acid, followed by a thor-
ough water rinse.
27. Under what conditions are brazing
or welding performed in fabricating
Architectural bronze extruded I-beam
206 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
copper-alloys? Can all alloys be
welded or brazed easily?
All alloys can be brazed easily, but
not all are readily welded. Brazing
and welding always produce distor-
tion; therefore, they are used only
where means can be provided to offset
the distortion or where corrective
measures can be applied to the com-
pleted joints. Brazing is preferred be-
cause its lower temperatures produce
less distortion, and it avoids joint po-
rosity and color differences that are
encountered in welding some of the
metals. Silicon bronze can be welded
by oxyacetylene and arc processes,
and its use as filler metal gives sound,
color-matching joints. Sound color-
matching joints can be made in cop-
per by inert-gas-arc welding using
suitable copper filler metal. Sound
welds with fair color match can be
made in red brass by oxyacetylene
welding with silicon bronze rods. Arc
welding is difficult on zinc-bearing
metals, so oxyacetylene welding is ad-
vised. Oxyacetylene welds with low-
fuming bronze in Muntz metal and
yellow brass are sound and color
matching. So also are oxyacetylene
welds in nickel silver when made with
suitable nickel silver welding rods.
Since it contains lead, welds in archi-
tectural bronze tend to be porous, but
fair color match and minimum po-
rosity can be obtained by using strips
of the base metal as the filler metal,
and a very oxidizing flame.
COSTS
28. Is there a wide range in the costs
of the various copper alloys?
Considering sheet material only,
the price spread among the principal
architectural alloys in the copper fam-
ily is not great for widths which do
not exceed 24-in. Beyond this point
the spread increases, with copper low-
est in price and silicon bronze and
nickel silver highest. Muntz metal and
red brass are about midway between.
29. Does it cost more to maintain
bronze in good appearance than alu-
minum or stainless steel?
Definitely not. Specialists of long
experience in refinishing architec-
tural metals report that:
Anodized Aluminum, either in color
or plain, will last several years in a
Part 2
favorable climate, but it cannot be re-
finished, nor satisfactorily lacquered.
Removing the lacquer destroys the
anodized finish to such an extent that
the metal has to be given a flash of
aluminum with a spray gun and then
recoated with lacquer.
Stainless Steel is said to require
only washing with soap and water.
This is not actually so unless the own-
er is willing to accept a progressive
soiling or graying of the metal. Be-
cause of the smooth, dense surface,
stainless steel cannot be lacquered;
therefore, the standard procedure in
maintaining stainless steel is to clean
the metal with an abrasive, such as
pumice and water, once a month.
Bronze is the easiest to maintain
because it can always be refinished
without damaging the surface, and
requires just an ordinary amount of
care, or even less. Allowed to weather
naturally, it will maintain itself.
30. What is the approximate installed
cost comparison, percentagewise, of
copper-alloy metals versus aluminum
and stainless steel?
The first cost of architectural metal
work favors aluminum because of its
lighter weight. The cost of fabricat-
ing and erecting aluminum, stainless
steel and bronze are practically the
same. Work in extruded bronze will
cost 25 per cent more than plain-ano-
dized extruded aluminum, and 15 per
cent more than color-anodized alum-
inum. Stainless steel is not extruded.
For paneling and wrap-around
sheet metal, aluminum still has the
price advantage, although it is seldom
used in this way. Stainless steel and
red brass are the metals most suited
to this style. The cost is nearly equal,
favoring stainless steel slightly.
For ribbed or corrugated roofing or
siding the costs are probably in the
following proportion: Bronze, 100;
Stainless Steel, 95; Aluminum, 50.
For windows, the development of
roll-formed silicon bronze sash and
frame members has made this type of
bronze window competitive to roll-
formed stainless steel. By compari-
son, an aluminum window fabricated
from extruded shapes and plain ano-
dized, would cost approximately 15
per cent less. Color anodizing would
reduce this differential.
Product Reports
“IDEAL CLASSROOM” FEATURES NEW IDEAS, NEW EQUIPMENT
Taking its cues from recent studies on the subject, the
Brunswick Corporation has created a model classroom
to show how available components—including the new
ones shown below—can better meet today’s educational
needs. One notable feature of the classroom is corner
orientation, with focal points in the corners and student
seating arranged in wedges facing them (photo left). In
one corner is the teacher’s work center, with reference
materials, supplies and controls for electronic devices
within easy reach. The room also features carpeting for
better acoustics, special wall lighting, and several new
classroom furniture designs by Dave Chapman, Inc.
THE TRIZOID DESK. A new unit designed to serve the re-
quirements of large groups (lecture), small groups
(committee work and team study) and individual pri-
vate study, the trizoid desk is essentially a rectangular
work desk with a hinged drop leaf that can be set in
three positions: lowered, horizontal or vertical. With
the leaf lowered, the trizoid itself provides a large (21
by 23% in.) basic work area. With the 24 by 11%-in.
leaf placed horizontally, the desk provides a still larger
surface for reference work or projects. When the drop
leaf is locked in its vertical position, at right angles to
the basic work area as shown at right, the desk becomes
an isolated study center or carrel, providing the student
privacy needed for testing or library work. The trizoid
also features a book storage compartment located desk
high at the forward edge of the desk top. It comes in 27
and 29-in. heights to meet the requirements of high
schools and colleges.
THE SWINGING SPACE DIVIDER. To add to its flexibility,
the model classroom is also equipped with a swinging
space divider that can be swung flush against the wall
or out at any angle from it to block off areas for special
group activities. The divider itself is composed of a
heavy metal framing member, 99 in. long and 79 in.
high, fitted with standards from which can be hung such
teaching aids as chalkboard, tackboard, pegboard, book-
shelves and cabinets. One end of the unit is hinged to
the wall; the free end is fitted with casters to permit
rotation up to 180 degrees.
THE CLUSTER COMBINATION DESK. A one-piece chair and
work surface unit, the cluster combination features a
trapezoidal top with a gentle curve in the student side,
instead of a regular rectangular top. Units can be
grouped side by side in a fan-shaped line, or grouped
in clusters of four (foreground, photo left) for student
project work groups. Since each top is large enough to
hold a cafeteria tray, the units are also useful for lunch-
rooms and cafeterias. School Equipment Div., Brunswick
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Office Literature
AN INTRODUCTION TO HIGH STRENGTH
. .. Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars
discusses the advantages and uses of
high strength reinforcing bars and gives
general instructions for their selection
and use. Appendixes cover bend test re-
quirements; minimum elongation re-
quirements; use of hooks; welded joint
details and types of joints, and welding
methods and procedures; and ASTM
specifications. A bibliography is also in-
cluded. 28 pp. Committee of Concrete
Reinforcing Bar Producers, American
Iron and Steel Institute, 150 East 42nd
St., New York 17, N. Y.
208 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Glazing Specifications
... for Vision Glass (A.I.A. 7-Р”,
26-A-51, 26-B) reports the principal
causes of glazing failures, factors
governing sealant selection and
placement, minimum standards and
basic glazing recommendations for
aluminum, steel and wood sash.
Brochure F-5795B, 12 pp. Tremco
Manufacturing Co., 10701 Shaker
Blvd., Cleveland 4, Ohio*
Recessed Fluorescent Lighting
(A.I.A. 31-F-2) Contains technical
data and general information on
Skyway series of recessed fluorescent
lighting fixtures, including construc-
tion features, specifications, mainte-
nance features, a diffuser check
chart, illustrated mounting methods,
accessories, trim details, and order-
ing information. Brochure B-1, 40
pp. Globe Illumination Co., 2121 S.
Main St., Los Angeles 7, Calif.
1961 Manual of Design
(A.I.A. 19-B-3) Gives complete tech-
nical data related to the proper use
of laminated wood structural mem-
bers. Features included are: arch
and beam design procedures, connec-
tion details, recommendations on ad-
hesives and treatments, a color se-
lection chart for stain finishes, and
description and specifications for
Unit Deck and Clear Panel roof deck-
ing systems. Unit Structures, Inc.,
Peshtigo, Wis.*
Insulating Glass
Semi-technical manual gives a de-
tailed comparison of Bondermetic
and GlasSeal Thermopane, revised
data on sound insulation values, a di-
agrammatic presentation of the vari-
ous combinations of glass and air
Spaces, strength calculations, and
installation photos. Manual TP-25,
15 pp. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.,
$11 Madison Ave., Toledo 1, Ohio*
Guide to Architects’ Specifications
. . . for Resilient Tile contains com-
plete specifications for asphalt,
vinyl-asbestos, solid vinyl and Poly-
merite tile. 14 pp. Mastic Div., Ruber-
oid Co., 500 Fifth Ave., New York,
NYS
All About Polyethylene Pipe
Discusses quality, type, density and
proper application of polyethylene
pipe. 8 pp. Union Carbide Plastics
Co., 270 Park Ave., New York 17,
Ni ON
Multi-Purpose School Furniture
Covers complete line of chairs and
tables, including classroom and li-
brary seating equipment, and a new
line of furniture designed for use in
faculty rooms and offices. 12 pp. Na-
tional School Furniture Co., Dept.
SC-2, Odenton, Md.
Modern Formica Interiors
Shows commercial and institutional
interiors using Formica laminated
plastic, and contains reproductions
of available colors, patterns and
woodgrains. 12 pp. Formica Corp.,
4614 Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati
82, Ohio*
Performance of Lath and Plaster
Reports on 7-year research project
on performance of suspended plaster
ceilings; describes variables of lath
and plaster tested, and conclusions
reached; and outlines resulting
changes in recommended lath and
plaster design, specifications апа
usage. 8 pp. Gypsum Assn., 203 М.
Wells St., Chicago 6, Ill.
Anodized Aluminum Grilles
(A.I.A. 14-Р) Provides specifications
on patterns, dimensions and colors,
and construction details of applica-
tions, of Anotec architectural ano-
dized aluminum grilles. Klemp In-
ternational, 1132 W. Blackhawk St.,
Chicago 22, Ill.*
Mineral Wool Insulation Standard
Defines thermal performance cate-
gories in terms of both “U” values
and installed resistance units (“R”);
details physical requirements of min-
eral wool insulation; specifies toler-
ances for vapor permeance of fac-
ings, dimensions, resistance to mold
and decay, thermal performance and
fire resistance; and prescribes a
standard method of determining
thermal performance (“R”) values.
National Mineral Wool Insulation
Assn., 1270 Sixth Ave., New York
00, N. Y.
Expanded Metals for Architecture
Pictures applications of decorative
meshes; and gives framing, fasten-
ing and finishing details for 4-in. Ar-
morweave, 1-in. Cathedral and other
meshes. 16 pp. United States Gyp-
sum Co., Dept. 122, 300 W. Adams
St., Chicago 6, Ill.*
* Additional product information in
Sweet's Architectural File
more literature on page 238
As part of а 10 year product development plan,
Curtis-AllBrite presents a new fixture that is truly
an innovation in illumination . . . the Ventro-Lux
with Anemostat air diffuser. Four essential services
are provided in this combined unit—excellent
diffusion of light plus the optimum in heating,
cooling and ventilation . . . and all this with im-
portant savings in space and installation costs.
Greater light efficiency comes from the exclu-
sive CALux lens which provides effective
concealment of lamps, high light output plus
attractive appearance. The separate Anemostat air
diffuser handles a high capacity of air which it
diffuses horizontally along the ceiling. This means
draft-free distribution—no hot or cold spots—no
VENTRO-LUX
/ ..the ultimate
in light and air
distribution
ceiling smudge. The Ventro-Lux is the first troffer
to be combined with a high capacity air diffuser.
Low capacity units distribute air vertically creating
drafts with air falling directly on room occupants.
The Ventro-Lux and Anemostat units are installed
separately thus eliminating conflicts in the trades.
They are designed together for a low silhouette
of 6" or less...air volume can easily be regulated
from the outside...side air entry allows installation
in shallow plenum areas, increasing the over-all
usable space of buildings plus lowering construc-
tion costs. Curtis-AllBrite Lighting, Inc., 6135 W.
65th St., Chicago 38, Illinois — 352 Shaw Rd.,
South San Francisco, Calif. — Toronto, Canada —
Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Mail coupon today.
VERSA-LUX
...another new
Luminaire from
Curtis-AllBrite
А new streamlined fixture versatile in design and appli-
cation. Equipped with CALux lens which provides
excellent diffusion of light. This shallow 5" recessed
troffer comes in the following sizes: 1’ x 4'—
2’ x 4’ and l’ x 8’. Its trim, slim design meets the
new requirements of modern architectural design. Ideal
for offices, banks, stores, hospitals and schools.
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DEADLINE
APPROACHING
for Manufacturer
Listings:
1961 Edition of
А.1. А. Building Products Register
Now in Preparation
The American Institute of Architects will shortly publish the second
edition of the Building Products Register. Designed to aid architects,
engineers and other building industry specifiers in selecting building
products, the Register’s usefulness in 1961 will be enhanced by
* More individual product listings (approximately 2,500—up 92% over
first edition)
* More abstracts of technical standards and specifications (approximately
1,000—up 66% over first edition)
* More major categories of building products covered (technical data and
performance criteria for 24 categories will be provided—33% more than
first edition)
e Revised format, based upon suggestions from architects and manufacturers
after experience with first edition, making it easier to use
e Addition of trade names index for easy identification
The Register’s great value to users—assembling in one reference work
data formerly spread over several—makes it a valuable medium. It places
accurate information, expressed in terms an architect and engineer need,
before a designer at the time products are selected. Manufacturers renewing
listings for 1961—99% of respondents to a preliminary survey—are in-
creasing the number of their product listings an average of 30%. Product
listings are $50 each, with reduced costs for extra listings. For complete
information about listing your products, write
AIA Building Products Register,
The American Institute of Architects
1735 New York Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
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Walls of Stark Structural Ceramic Tile offer
advantages found in no other wall material . . . structural
strength, beauty, low initial cost and minimum
maintenance for the life of the building.
Now Stark’s unique sculptured structural tiles
offer an additional benefit . . . design. These
easy-to-clean glazed units add depth, versatility,
beauty and interest never before possible...
a new creative tool for the architect—designer. Available
in 4 contemporary patterns and a wide range of colors
to create impressive walls with impressive
economy. Ask for the new Stark Brochure
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This smart-looking, modern reception room and office has a distinctive rose-
colored China Blend “K&M” Corrugated Asbestos-Cement Panel, with partitions
in bright yellow and bone white K&M” Flat Sheets.
“K&M”® COLORED STRUCTURAL SHEETS
The eye-appeal of color...the durability of asbestos-cement
Now, you can combine utility with
decorative appeal by the use of
"K&M" Asbestos-Cement Structural
Sheets with the new *KolorMate"
Finish.
These hardy, fireproof sheets retain
all the ruggedness and durability of
plain asbestos-cement sheets. How-
ever, 15 striking colors make them as
good-looking as they are tough. They
open up for you an unlimited range
of decorative possibilities as siding,
soffits, facades, marquees, office and
shop partitions, and wall trim, to
name but a few applications.
Under rigorous testing in K&M's re-
search and development laboratories,
these colors did not blister, peel,
yellow or fade. Their *KolorMate"
baked-on acrylic finish, developed ex-
clusively for “K&M”, bonds securely
to the surface. This smooth, semi-
gloss finish won’t crack or chip dur-
ing installation . . . can be scrubbed
repeatedly without damage.
Write today for more information on
“K&M” Asbestos-Cement Sheets with
*KolorMate" Finish to: Keasbey &
Mattison Company, Ambler, Pa.
Dept. B-3441.
214 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
BEST IN ASBESTOS
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This trim can take it! Milcor Metal Base provides the dura-
bility and impact resistance of steel at an installed cost competitive with
other materials. It’s ideal for hospitals, schools, and other public buildings —
any area where heavy, careless traffic is a constant threat to weaker products.
It’s easily installed in plaster or masonry walls. The Milcor Interior Metal
Trim line also includes window stools, cove moulds, picture moulds, and chair
rails. All are now available through building supply dealers. See Sweet’s,
section 12a/In, or write for catalog 202.
Member of the «С» Steel Family M Г. ,
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Another NEW General Electric
Ballast Development...
THIS CAPACITOR IS DESIGNED
TO PREVENT RUPTURE!
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internal temperatures which may cause
rupture of the capacitor case. Also, a
Wile new bushing assembly acts as an
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ing seepage. Result: longer ballast life.
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WITH NO SACRIFICE IN SOUND PERFORMANCE!
216 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
General Electric proudly announces new Bonus Line
fluorescent ballasts, designed to offer you—for the first
time—full protection against the hazards sometimes
associated with ballast end-of-life failure.
This new ballast design, available in most popular
ratings for indoor commercial and industrial applications,
features two outstanding new General Electric develop-
ments that make it safer than standard ballast designs:
1. A new Thermal Protector has been developed and
tested for several years in General Electric laboratories.
The Thermal Protector de-energizes the ballast before
it reaches the critical internal temperatures at end of
life that cause ballast filling compound to soften or
melt. This non-resetting Thermal Protector completely
eliminates any need for individual ballast fusing.
2. A newly developed, two-way improved General
Electric capacitor features a unique Thermal Link
designed to overcome capacitor rupture and leakage
which sometimes occur at end of life. Also, the new
Another NEW General Electric
Ballast Development . . .
SPECIAL THERMAL PROTECTOR
makes ballasts safer
than ever before!
Unique Thermal Protector is designed
to de-energize the ballast permanently
at end-of-life failure, preventing com-
pound softening and eliminating
ballast leakage. This assures full-life
protection against hazards to people
or property.
capacitor has a new bushing assembly which contributes
to longer ballast life.
New Bonus Line ballasts are dimensionally, thermally,
and electrically interchangeable with standard General
Electric ballasts of same ratings. They meet—and, in
certain respects, exceed—all appropriate industry stand-
ards. And you get all these ballast added values without
sacrifice in sound performance. General Electric ballasts
are still the quietest ballasts available!
In short, new G-E Bonus Line ballasts give you added
years of safe, reliable, quiet performance. They're engi-
neered to eliminate leakage, smoke—even the more
violent conditions which sometimes occur at end of normal
ballast life.
Your General Electric ballast sales engineer will be
proud to give you full information on new G-E Bonus Line
ballasts for your lighting applications. Contact your nearby
G-E sales office or write for Bulletin GEA-6912 to Section
403-01, General Electric Co., Danville, Illinois.
Progress [s Our Most Important Product
GENERAL Q ELECTRIC
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 217
Product Reports
continued from page 207
Modular Louver Diffuser
The 2 ft by 4 ft module Gratelite
2/ yr
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louver diffuser now includes 34” open
plastic cubicles with optimum 45 de-
gree by 45 degree shielding which
produces superior light diffusion for
illumination in fixtures or overall
ceilings. These cubes feature tapered
vanes for extra strength and rigid-
ity. Edwin F. Guth Co., P.O. Box
7079, St. Louis 77, Mo.
TUTTLE & BAILEY)
DAMPER
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Air-Handling Lighting Troffers
One of the important features of
Triple-Shell Lumi-Flo, a new air-
handling troffer, is that the air pas-
sageway is isolated from the troffer
housing by fiberglass insulation and
an insulating air gap, thus elimi-
nating temperature variations affect-
ing the light output of the unit. Air
handling capacity has also been in-
creased so that a 1 by 4 or 2 by 4 ft
unit now handles from 0 to 200 cu ft
per minute. Installation time is
greatly reduced by the use of a snap-
in damper assembly and a side-
mount hanger. Benjamin Div.,
Thomas Industries Inc. 207 Е.
Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
Smaller, Less Costly Dimmer
A smaller, less expensive Luatrol
light control, designed for use where
only a few lamps are to be dimmed,
brightened or blended, will control
up to 200 watts of incandescent light
or five rapid-start fluorescent lamps.
The unit, which is easily installed in
a standard 4-in. wall, is faced by a
5-by-5-in. wallplate in brushed brass
or stainless steel with ivory, gray or
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black control knob. The faceplate may
also be had prime painted. Swperior
Electric Co., Bristol, Conn.
Nailable-Stud Partition System
The Permalock non-bearing, nail-
able-stud partition system has been
redesigned to incorporate a number
of new features. One change is a new
locking device that holds the 24-gage
steel channels together with a clinch
grip. This increases the rigidity of
the stud and improves the holding
qualities of the nailing groove, which
can be used for either ratchet nails
or screws. Stud openings have also
been changed to permit a choice of
sections for both runners and bridg-
ing. For bridging, either notched
sections or conventional cold-rolled
channel can be used. Studs are made
in five sizes, and practically all types
of material can be nailed or screwed
to them. Penn Metal Co., Inc., 40
Central St., Boston, Mass.
more products on page 222
TRANSOM DETAIL
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
for LCN Overhead Concealed Door Closer Shown on Opposite Page
The LCN Series 500 Closer’s Main Points:
1. Efficient, full rack-and-pinion, two-speed control of
| oj | the door
Mechanism entirely concealed; arm visible on in-
side of an out-swinging door
Sr GRECO
Hydraulic back-check prevents door's being thrown
open violently to damage door, walls, etc.
Double lever arm provides maximum power to over-
come wind and drafts
Arm may be hold-open type, 90°—140° or 140°—180°;
| jaw] here the fusible link 90?— 140? h. о. arm is used.
| | Complete Catalog on Request— No Obligation
f or See Sweet’s 1961, Sec. 18e/Lc
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Here’s a beautiful and versatile floor.
Properly maintained, it takes punish-
mentin stride. But-far more hazardous
than scuffing feet or tracked-in grime,
are improper and inferior floor treat-
ments. Instead of protecting the floor,
such treatments may actually damage it!
Avoid costly mis-matching of floor
and treatment. Follow the recommenda-
tions of the Asphalt and Vinyl Asbestos
Tile Institute*; choose the specialized
treatments that fit the flooring. Then
Cafeteria, Notre Dame High School, Bridgeport, Conn.
specify maintenance, to hold “new floor” Architects: Lyons & Mather, Bridgeport
beauty.
Ж SCRUB “with a good, mild neutral cleaner . . . no oils, organic solvents or
other injurious materials." Hillyard Super Shine-All® is the famous neutral POSSE EO
chemical cleaner with 6-fold cleansing action, formulated safe for all floor- Concrete Floors |
ing. UL listed “as to slip resistance”. = mis
Ж FINISH “with an approved water emulsion wax... containing no gasoline,
naphtha, turpentine or mineral solvents." Hillyard Super Hil-
Brite® is the finest of water emulsion, self-polishing waxes,
made from 100% No. 1 imported Carnauba. Long-wearing—
eliminates 2 re-waxings out of 3. UL listed “аз to slip re-
sistance”,
Ж SWEEP “using recommended compound where necessary to
keep down the dust... no oil or solvent base compounds.” em
Hillyard Super Hil-Sweep® dressing is formulated safe for re- age me
silient flooring, contains no oils, effectively controls dust. Non- eS
slip, safe on the floor. >‘‘Maintenance of Vinyl Asbestos Tile
and Asphalt Tile Floors," published
ON ASPHALT TILE ө VINYL e RUBBER e TERRAZZO by the Institute, N. Y. 17, N. Y. |
WOOD e CONCRETE OR GYMNASIUM —
You'll Finish Ahead with
HILLYARD
BRANCHES AND WAREHOUSES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES
A-2
San Jose, Calif. ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI Passaic, N.J.
Let the Hillyard ‘‘Main-
taineerg" recommend
treatments that meet :
flooring manufacturer :
or association specifi-
cations, and give you
professional “Job Cap-
tain" service. He's
“On Your Stall. TE
ot CUouk Pauroll’ Write for Free Hillyard А.1.А.
A Y Pay l ы Practical treating
guides, one for each type
SINCE 1907 of flooring.
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Structurally efficient!
EGSCOg insulated metal wall panels
in Colorgard are architecturally
effective for all building types
Whether the building design is industrial, insti-
tutional or commercial, the EGSCO system of
interlocking metal wall panels offers simple, low
cost and fast erection, ample insulation, pleas-
ing wall configuration and built-in contempo-
rary color finish.
For most modern buildings the extreme panel
lengths available eliminate unsightly horizontal
panel laps. Fasteners are exposed to neither
view nor weather. This, coupled with factory
caulking of vertical joints, eliminates any weak
point of entry for weather corrosion.
The shimmering beauty of Colorgard is pro-
tected by Peelcote, a strippable polyethylene
skin, until erection is complete.
EGSCO engineers provide the architect and
engineer with structural standards to reduce
drawing board time. Specify EGSCO for a sure
bet. For complete information see Sweet's File
3a/Sm or write for Bulletin 61W.
ELWIN G. SMITH & CO., INC.
Manufacturers of EGSCO® Metal Wall Products
Pittsburgh 2, Pa.
BOSTON * CHICAGO * CINCINNATI * CLEVELAND * DETROIT
TOLEDO ‘NEW YORK * PHILADELPHIA * PITTSBURGH
(top) EGSCO insulated wall panels with Colorgard in tan
and gold were erected on this recently completed Williams-
port, Pa., plant of The M. W. Kellogg Company, where
the Power Piping Division is located, including engineering,
research and field erection and the manufacture of power
piping systems. Engineer and architect is Lester B. Knight
and Associates, Inc., Chicago.
(middle) This is the new, modern Pittsburgh office of Carson,
Pirie, Scott & Co., nationally known wholesale distributors
of floor coverings. The architecture is enhanced by EGSCO
Shadowall panels in Colorgard Gold. The architect is J.
Kenneth Myers; the contracting engineers are Mellon-Stuart
Co., both of Pittsburgh.
(lower) A close-up view of a curtainwall of EGSCO Contour-
wall in Colorgard Green. The panels form the colorful insu-
lated metal wall for a penthouse on the roof of a modern
factory-type building.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 221
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Offices and Agents in All Principal Cities
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Product Reports
Heating, Air Conditioning System
The Combinex system, while utiliz-
ing hot and chilled water from a
central system, makes use of a new
concept of air circulation. For heat-
ing, return air is withdrawn at floor
level and discharged at the ceiling;
for cooling, return air is withdrawn
at ceiling level and discharged at the
floor. By working with natural air
circulation, the system produces а
more comfortable, steady flow of air.
The units are available in a wide se-
lection of capacities and with fea-
tures to meet any application re-
quirements. Kritzer Products, Div.
of Peerless of America, Inc., 5800 N.
Pulaski Rd., Chicago 46, Ill.
Foamed Plastic for Insulation
Foamthane, a polyurethane foam
that has approximately the same
density as polystyrene foam is said
to have about twice the insulating
efficiency. Its effective insulating
range is from minus 330 degrees F.
to plus 200 degrees F. In addition,
Foamthane is an excellent base for
plaster, resists most solvents and has
good acid resistance. Pittsburgh
Corning Corp., One Gateway Center,
Pittsburgh 22, Pa.
more products on page 226
now irs SQUARE D GATEWAYDUCT
Here are some
recent Gatewayduct
installations
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superior underfloor duct for power, signal and
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Federal Government
Office Buildings GATEWAYDUCT is now manufactured by Square D and is avail-
Maytag Company
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of Health duct system has gained tremendous acceptance among elec-
able exclusively through Square D distributors.This underfloor
Ryerson Steel trical contractors, consulting engineers and architects because
Seaboard & Western
Airlines, Idlewild
Smithsonian Institution field service on which Square D has built its national stand-
of its significant design and installation features. Now the same
ing is behind every Gatewayduct installation.
SQUARE D COMPANY, MERCER ROAD, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
SQUARE T) COMPANY
wherever electricity is distributed and controlled
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 223
FIXTURES
in your kitchen plans...to add up to
MORE LASTING PERFORMANCE
BETTER SANITATION __
GREATER ECONOMIES
You know T&S quality when you see it and
heft it...and mostly when it’s at work for
you from one end of the kitchen to the
other. Why "water down" your kitchen effic-
iency? Specify T&S stream-mated, quality-
built water fixtures and be sure of the finest,
longest lasting, most trouble-free units-for
your new or remodeled water service layouts.
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Versatile fixture for
cleaning dishes, silver,
cans and washing machines,
rinsing pots, spraying
vegetables, and final
rinse sterilizing.
B-180 KETTLE KADDY >
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-T&S SPECIFICATION MANUAL...
A_complete planning book of plumbing fixtures and
specialties for institutional and commercial kitchens.
See your dealer or write for Product Bulletins on:
PRE-RINSE € GLASS FILLERS € WATER STATIONS € FAUCETS
PEDAL VALVES AND SERVICE FITTINGS € POT FILLERS
KETTLE KADDIES ® SPRAY HOSES € ACCESSORIES
LAB-FLO LABORATORY SERVICE FIXTURES
T&S BRASS & BRONZE WORKS,
128 MAGNOLIA AVE., WESTBURY, L.I., N.Y.
Telephone: EDgewood 4-5104
224 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
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VOGT PACKAGE UNIT
STEAM GENERATORS
are available in capacities of 10,000
pounds of steam per hour and above
for either forced draft or induced
draft with gas or oil, or combination
gas-oil burners. Completely shop as-
sembled and require only piping,
electrical, and stack connections to
place in operation, Available in three
standard pressures of 175, 250, and
375 pounds S.W.P. Pressure tight
steel casings permit outdoor opera-
tion, if desired.
Send for Bulletin PSG-3, Dept. 24A-BAR.
—) HENRY VOGT MACHINE CO. * Louisville, Kentucky
SALES OFFICES: New York • Camden, N.J. e Chicago » Cleveland • St. Lewis
Los Angeles e Dallas e Charleston, W. Va.
PROCESSING
HEATING
Now you can specify A. 0. Smith glass-protected
smokestacks in colors that harmonize with your design
Brighten up the industrial horizon
and your client's outlook by specify-
ing A. O. Smith glass-protected smoke-
stacks. In addition to standard black
and royal blue, these famous stacks
are now available in light blue, tan,
green, gray, brown and red. Names
and trademarks can also be indelibly
fused to the outer surface in white
or contrasting color.
And at the end of every A. O. Smith
rainbow is a pot of gold — money
your client saves in 3 to 5 times
longer stack life, lower maintenance
and foundation costs. For colorful
new bulletin, write Dept. AR-41
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Р.О. Box 584, Milwaukee 1, Wis,
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First National Autobank, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Architects & Engineers: McCune, McCune & Associates. Contractor: Tulsa Rig, Reel & Manufacturing Company, Tulsa.
Folded roof to glamour walls...
concrete adds new attraction to drive-in banking
Out of a need for drive-up tellers’ windows, as well as parking facilities,
came this handsome banking center. Tulsa's First National
Autobank is a delightful example of the many ways concrete can
combine structural practicality with good design.
Here, concrete plays a major decorative role in many different ways.
You see everything from folded plate canopies over the parking arcade to
walls and sunscreens in high-style masonry shapes. Drives are black
concrete. Upper deck parking area is a hollow-core concrete deck.
Today's architects find there is no ceiling on imagination when they
design with modern concrete.
million transactions were handled at the Autobank the
first year. Tom-Tom Room, to the right of two-story PORTLAND CEMENT ASSO CIATION
bank lobby, is provided for meetings of Tulsa civic am? 1
groups. It’s reached directly from upper parking deck. A national organization to improve and extend the uses of concrete
. THE FIRST ALL-NEW “EXITS”
... Since doors were invented!
A slight overstatement, maybe. But these Guth
Exits DO introduce a lot of new ideas.
DESIGN-WISE — They're on the elegant side. A
dramatic new shape with trapezoidal housing.
Guth quality construction throughout. No
screws to unlatch on face-plate doors. Doors
lift up and swing open for easy servicing. The
face slants to point directly at the natural
“line of sight."
THREE LAMP SOURCES — Your choice of Incan-
descent, Fluorescent or those new, right-out-
of-the future Electroluminescent panels.
FIVE MOUNTINGS — Whatever you prefer! Draw-
ings below show complete selection.
Surface Mounted Recess Mounted
Top Mounted
One piece, die-
formed, hinged
Face Plates: All
glass or cut out
metal letters
with glass be-
hind.
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since 1902 2615 Washington Blvd.,
226 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Product Reports
Plastic Coated Wood
U.S. Plywood in conjunction with
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com-
pany has developed a line of decora-
tive plywood wall paneling and doors
coated with a clear thermoplastic.
Permagard is wear-resistant, stain-
resistant and heat-resistant and will
not discolor from toxic fumes, smoke
or grease. In addition to ease of in-
stallation and economy in cleaning
and maintenance, Permagard's roll-
lamination eliminates costly job site
finishing. U.S. Plywood, 55 West
44th St., New York 36, N.Y.
Wood Bricks For Houses
Wood bricks with the strength and
attractiveness of wood do triple duty
in house construction as exterior fin-
ish, structure, and interior finish.
They also give an insulating value
equal to that of a 24-in. masonry
wall. Each 35% in. square brick, avail-
able in different lengths, is factory
drilled for two nails, and glue is ap-
plied between bricks for additional
strength. Small wood strips are in-
serted in grooves in the vertical
joints. Construction is both fast and
simple and skilled labor is not re-
quired. Southern Settlement and De-
velopment Co., 229 N. Bowie St.,
Jasper, Tex.
more products on page 230
The three and a half million dollar Atlanta Hilton Inn
was developed and constructed by Hogan Bros., Inc.
of Metairie, La. The architect was George Saunders,
Walter E. Blessey handled the structural engineering,
апа Edward Sanford was in charge of mechanical
engineering. The installation of the plumbing system
was made by Hoffman-Wolfe Southern Corporation
of Atlanta.
When it comes to modern, rust-proof, clog-
proof, life-time supply and drainage plumbing
systems, more and more architects, builders
and plumbers are saying: “АП copper". The
jet-age Hilton Inn, just opened in Atlanta,
Georgia, isan excellent example because Stream-
line copper tube and solder-type fittings are
used for supply and drainage plumbing in this
ultra-modern 310 room structure.
Because of solder joint strength and lighter
weight of copper, even complex plumbing
assemblies can be quickly shop prefabricated or
assembled on the site with a minimum number
of solder joints. With copper there’s more
actual useable area in the building because
furring-out is eliminated. The standard 20 foot
lengths, uniform dimensions, com-
pleterangeofsizes, weight-savings
and lower labor costs make
Streamline copper tube and
fittings more economical, too.
Send for catalog D-459, for
all the latest facts on Stream-
line DWV copper tube and
solder-type fittings, the modern,
sanitary drainage piping material.
MODERN IN EVERY
CONCEPT...
INCLUDING THE
COPPER TUBE AND
FITTINGS USED IN
THE PLUMBING SYSTEM
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 227
2 POSITIVE ADVANTAGES IN 1 WALL
SPACE -SAVING
A total thickness of only 2-7/8"...a sound transmis-
sion loss rating of 42 db...both, big advantages found
in this new Gold Bond space-saving partition.
It's constructed of 3/4" channel studs, with pencil
rod attached to one side by resilient clips. Metal lath
is then wire-tied to the pencil rods and also to the
opposite side of the 3/4" channel studs. A 9/16"
thickness of sanded plaster is then applied to both
sides ofthe partition with a 1/16” lime putty finish coat.
The accumulated space saved can mean reduced
construction cost per square foot of floor space. Add
the bonus of excellent sound control and you have
a quality system that satisfies everyone. Familiarize
· yourself with this unique partition system. Ask your
Gold Bond? Representative for a demonstration, or
write Dept. AR-41 for complete technical information.
NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, BUFFALO 13, NEW YORK
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In Alcoa Aluminum, EGSCO Panels give you
low-cost color on a corrosion-resistant base!
Now offer your clients handsome, lasting color at little
more than the cost of ordinary corrugated sheet. Specify
EGSCO* insulated curtain walls or.wall panels of Alcoa?
Aluminum.
In bright baked enamels or glowing transparent colors,
EGSCO coatings are uniform and stable; won't check or
peel. Accidental surface damage does not result in rust.
Drilled, punched or sheared in fabrication, Alcoa Alumi-
num has natural protection against weather. Requires
little maintenance, replacement or repair.
*Registered Trademark of Elwin G. Smith & Co., Inc.
BUILDING: Philco Corp., Lansdale Div., Lansdale, Pa.; ARCHITECT: Wallace
and Warner, Architects and Engineers, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; GENERAL CON-
TRACTOR: Wallace Engineering and Construction Co., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; EGSCO
ALUMINUM WALL PANELS: Elwin G. Smith & Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Fluted EGSCO Wall Panels give industrial and com-
mercial buildings a pleasing face of color and attractive
shadow lines, unbroken by structural joints... and un-
marred by visible fastenings. Lightweight Alcoa Alumi-
num curtain walls are easy to erect, even in lengths of
40 ft or more.
You'll find complete specifications on EGSCO Wall
Panels in Sweet’s Architectural and Industrial Construc-
tion files; or write: Aluminum Company of America,
815-D Alcoa Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
ALCOA ALUMINUM
А THE ARCHITECT'S METAL
HINGES for HEAVY DOORS
or HIGH FREQUENCY USE
=
Half surface, four ball bearing, template hinges for kalamein or wood doors
with steel or wood jambs. Extra heavy for high frequency use and heavy
doors. Made of wrought steel, highly polished and heavily plated or bonder-
ized and primed for painting with inner edges
JAMB LEAF
DOOR LEAF 2
4-1/2"—.180 GA. 2.500” 2.562" (А)
5" —.190 GA. 2.500" 2.875" (a)
6" —.203 GA. 3.00* or 2.625** 3.250" @)
*For Doors 2-1 /4" thick and over **For Doors 1-3/4— 2" thick
of leaves beveled. Also avail-
able in solid brass,
i bronze or stainless steel
with stainless steel
.y pins. All hinges con-
=i" — form to Federal speci-
=11/8' fcations.
GRIFFIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY - ERIE, PA.
230 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Product Reports
Rubber Tile Flooring
New 9 in. by 9 in. rubber tiles offer
the combination of bright colors and
smooth surface with cushioned soft-
ness and quiet underfoot. The tiles
are dimensionally stable, with colors
that go all the way through the %-
in. thickness. The Danbury Rubber
Co., Inc., Danbury, Conn.
Wood-Beam Suspension System
A new suspension system for lumi-
nous ceilings permits the installation
of a wood beam grid hung from the
structural slab on 14 in. threaded ad-
justable rods. The complete floating
modular grid is positioned so that its
perimeters are spaced away from the
wall surfaces to overcome room ir-
regularities. The beams come in pre-
finished walnut, mahogany or Limba
wood. Neo-Ray Products, Inc., 315
East 22nd St., New York 10, N.Y.
Portable Refrigerator-Cooler
A portable service refrigerator-cooler
with anodized aluminum legs and
service shelf is a convenient addition
for kitchen or patio cooking areas.
The top opening with sliding lid per-
mits easy access and the stainless
steel top portion is equipped with an
electrical outlet. Beverage-Air Co.,
P.O. Box 1981, Spartanburg, S. C.
more products on page 234
Electrical Equipment By
East High School
Aurora, Illinois
Perkins & Will, Chicago
E. R. Gritschke & Assoc., Chicago
J-C Electric Co., Aurora, Ill
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EN BREAKER
SWITCHBOARD
CIRCUIT BREAKER
LIGHTING PANELBOARDS
CIRCUIT BREAKER
FEEDER PANELBOARDS
See our
catalog in
SwEET'S
у Fusible Distribution Panelboard,
SAG бча ERA ERER ра
FH ae Stage Lighting Control System, High iciency
p #15 Ventilated Busduct, Power-Plugin Busduct.
77 Ж
Electrical equipment has а dual function—to de-
liver an adequate flow of power wherever and
whenever it’s needed, and to protect the electri-
cal system, the building, the power-using equip-
ment and the occupants,
That Frank Adam equipment performs these
functions with unsurpassed efficiency, depend-
ability and economy is proved again and again
by the consistency with which it is specified by
leading architects and engineers for structures
like East High School shown above.
To give your clients the finest the industry pro-
duces—to insure they will get the reliable per-
formance and safety you intend and which they
expect—specify Frank Adam Electrical Equip-
ment. Experienced engineering representatives
are always at your service on every problem of
secondary power distribution and control.
RANK SINCE 1891
BAM ELECTRIC COMPANY
Р.О. BOX 357, MAIN P.O.. ST. LOUIS 66, MO.
busduct + panelboards + switchboards * service equipment
safely switches * load centers * Quikheter
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 231
Bestwall Hummer “B” System. This is the original system for con-
structing non-load bearing smooth surfaced partitions entirely of
laminated gypsum wallboard. Erected only by approved contractors—
permits faster occupancy—provides 1-3 hours fire rating—rapidly
installed at low cost—reduces sound transmission—insures stronger
walls, no nails to pop, no joint beading.
IT MUST BE BEST...because Bestwall Hummer System “B” is the
most copied, respected and proven system for constructing incom-
bustible, non-load bearing partitions of gypsum wallboard. Walls like
these are being specified and erected in com- килт
mercial, high-rise buildings everywhere. Bestwall
Gypsum Co. / Ardmore, Pa. Plants and Offices throughout the United States BUILDING
Spandrel panels of textured green PLEXIGLAS at Research and Engineering Building, Rohm & Haas Company plant, Bristol, Ра.
New concept in spandrel panels
Now buildings of modest size can have the distinctive
appearance provided by custom-designed spandrel
panels. Faces of PLEXIGLAS® acrylic plastic make
it possible.
Spandrel faces of PLEXIGLAS can be formed to cus-
tom shapes and patterns at low cost, even when
limited numbers are required. Architects designing
small buildings, therefore, can achieve design effects
that formerly were restricted because of cost to struc-
tures using large numbers of formed metal panels. In
addition, spandrel faces of PLEXIGLAS can be formed
in a wide range of colors that have been time-
proved for color stability by years of outdoor use
in the building field.
For further details about spandrel faces of PLEXIGLAS
—just one of the many uses of PLEXIGLAS as an
architectural material—and the names of manufac-
turers, write for folder PL-459.
ROHM ЕР]
HAAS =
PHILADELPHIA 5,РА.
In Canada: Rohm & Haas Со. of Canada, Ltd., West Hill, Ontario
PLEXIGLAS
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
| SEARS ROEBUCK & COMPANY, Saugus, Mass,
BLUE CROSS BUILDING, Boston, Mass,
• FOR SEALING PANELS
PROVEN
TREMCO 1-PART Á
• FOR SEALING VISION GLASS
THE EQUITABLE
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
New York City
100% LIQUID POLYMER Y ae
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WHITE PLAINS HIGH SCHOOL
White Plains, New York
LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Boston, Mass.
TREMCO MONO-LASTO-MERIC®,
1-PART 100% LIQUID POLYMER,
ACRYLIC BASE SEALANT ... . factory
mixed, ready for use in cartridge or bulk, assures absolute
weathertightness for controlled joints, expansion joints and
conventional caulking joints. It has a basic superiority over
conventional sealants which require the use of ingredients that
will migrate or oxidize in time, thus lowering sealant life and
efficiency. Mono-Lasto-Meric is formulated with Tremco devel-
oped and Tremco manufactured pure 100% liquid polymer.
The desired requirements of exceptional adhesion and enduring
elasticity are inherent and permanent parts of the basic polymer.
Absolutely non-staining on masonry surfaces.
For your next bonding, sealing or caulking as- heen
signment consider Mono-Lasto-Meric. A product
data sheet designed for specifying authorities is
available from your Tremco Representative or TH
write: The Tremco Manufacturing Company, =
Cleveland 4, Ohio, or The Tremco Manufacturing |
Company (Canada) Limited, Toronto 17, Ontario.
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TREMCO
“When you specify a Tremco Product
... you specify a Tremco Service!”
PRODUCTS AND TECHNICAL SERVICES FOR
BUILDING MAINTENANCE & CONSTRUCTION
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
SEE OUR CATALOG IN SWEET'S
Product Reports
Thermostatic Water Mixer
The Hydroguard Type H-5, a new
low-capacity thermostatic water
mixer for showers and tubs, offers
hot water savings plus improved re-
sponse for bather comfort and safe-
ty. Mounted on the shower or tub
wall, the mixer maintains water at
the temperature dialed by the user,
regardless of fluctuations in the sup-
ply lines. A built-in safety limit that
prevents delivery of water hotter
than 110 F protects against scalds.
The new Hydroguard, the smallest
available, has a 5 gpm capacity to
match the performance of most
shower heads. The Powers Regulator
Co., 3434 Oakton St., Skokie, Ill.
Teakwood Parquetry Floor
According to its manufacturer, a
handsome parquetry floor of Thai-
Teak teakwood blocks will out-per-
form any available natural or syn-
thetic flooring in dimensional stabil-
ity, durability, and ease of mainte-
nance. The wood’s natural resistance
to vermin and rot, its ability to with-
stand heavy traffic, and its water re-
sistance make it suitable for even
such rooms as kitchens and bath-
rooms where a hardwood floor would
otherwise be impractical at best. The
5/16-in.-thick parquetry blocks come
іп Straitline, Foursquare, Swirl
and Diamond patterns for application
with mastic. Thai-Teak flooring also
comes in random width planks and
tongue and groove strips. Bangkok
Industries, Inc. 1545 Passayunk
Ave., Philadelphia 45, Pa.
Outdoor Compressor-Condenser
Janitrol’s new 52 Series outdoor
compressor-condenser for residen-
tial cooling systems features larger
coils (for better heat dissipation)
positioned diagonally in the cabinet
(for more efficient arrangement of
components). Its compressor and
fan are said to be unusually quiet in
operation, and noise is reduced fur-
ther by an acoustically-treated cabi-
net and rubber fan-mountings. The
unobtrusive, green-finished cabinet
can be located near planting since all
hot exhaust air flows upward away
from the plants. The unit comes in
capacities from 22,200 to 110,200
Btuh. Janitrol Heating and Air Con-
ditioning, 440 Dublin Ave., Colum-
bus 16, Ohio
їп a Hager “Life-Time Bearing” Butt Hinge!
The bearings stay there for life! Upper and lower raceways
ride forever—on the full count of ball bearings—in a Hager
Life-Time Bearing Butt Hinge!
Tough case-hardened steel ball bearing raceways are press-
fitted into direct contact with knuckle on Hager ball
bearing butt hinges.
No soft brass retaining jacket (or crimped shell) lies
between the knuckle and the raceway. . . nothing to
eventually wear away and allow the bearings to slip out.
Both raceways and all 26 ball bearings are hard at work in
Hager Ball Bearing Butt Hinges—in fine jeweled move-
ment—forever providing life-time trouble-free silent door
operation.
You’d expect finer performance from Hager Ball Bearing
Butt Hinges, naturally—and naturally, you have a right to!
If it’s expected to stay for //fe, then, of course
EVERYTHING HINGES ON HAGER!
*26 Balls in 414” x 414”
2-bearing Butt Hinges
®
NOT THIS...
One-knuckle-bored
construction. Bearings
anchored with wear-away
brass bushings. (Bearings
eventually fall out, when
pin is removed.)
BUT THIS...
Hager TWO-knuckle-bored
construction. Bearings
anchored with case-hardened
steel raceways.
EVERYTHING HINGES ON Hager! © С. HAGER & SONS HINGE MFG. CO., ST. LOUIS 4, MO., U.S.A.
HAGER HINGE CANADA LIMITED, KITCHENER, ONTARIO
OPEN WORLD OF LIVING. L'O-F Glass enlarges your life
with big picture-window walls, sliding glass doors. And when
Thermopane® insulating glass is in all the windows, your home
is warmer in winter, cooler in summer, quieter the year ‘round.
ZU is
OPEN WORLD OF WORKING. Big windows like this let
you look out at the world to keep the walls from closing in. In
many office buildings, these windows are L:O-F Parallel-O- Plate?
glass — twin ground for better looking inside and outside.
Architecture and the
ә is built of straw апа mud. Of brick
and stone. Wood and metal. And of glass.
As you leaf through the pages of time, you will
find each chapter headed by the kind of structure
in which men lived, loved and died.
For man’s architecture has always been his atti-
tude. An expression of his heritage and his hopes. His
fears and his faith.
A Place to Hide
Often his house, whether castle or hovel, was first
and foremost a place to hide.
The drawbridge, the lookout towers, the dwellings
hacked out of high cliffs—these were things built
not for a man’s better living but so that his life
would not be abruptly ended.
Even now, in 1961, much of the world is still
in hiding. Behind closed doors, shuttered windows.
Behind walls of stone and fear and ignorance.
Not because it wants to. But because it must.
In America
How differently we live in America. Here in the
capital of the free world . . . the open world. Here
the shutters have come off, the walls have come
down, and the love of liberty is expressed with
eloquence everywhere. We live in freedom, and our
houses show it. We work in freedom, and you can
see it in our buildings.
We are free to worship as we please, and that free-
dom shines out of our churches and our synagogues.
And the more we learn about being free, the more
clearly our architecture shows it. The better it
shelters us without shackling us. The more it turns
to the one magic material that encloses without
imprisoning. Glass.
Glass Makes the Difference
Homes that once were only as wide as their walls
ITS HEART OPEN TO THE WORLD, this lovely church
abides in quiet confidence. Nature and structure blend into
one, where they meet at the great glass wall. And its feeling of
freedom is so fitting for those who worship in an open world.
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OPEN WORLD OF LEARNING. Children are more alert,
learn faster, feel less confined in classrooms opened to daylight
and the outside world by walls of glass. That's why so many
award-winning schools have clear L:O-F Glass sill-to-ceiling.
Open World
now seem big as all outdoors. Schoolrooms that
once seemed more like cells now have a cheerful,
open feeling of freedom. And today, instead of a
few items stacked in a store window, the whole store
is on display. Banks look hospitable instead of hostile.
Office buildings say “Come in", instead of “Keep out".
And inside, space seems much less encumbered
than ever before. Light passes uninterrupted through
translucent glass partitions. And big, wide rib-
L:O-F advertisements, appearing in
leading consumer, professional and busi-
ness publications throughout 1961 will stim-
ulate the desire for “open world" living.
LIBBEY*OWENS:*FORD, TOLEDO 1, OHIO
bons of windows help keep the walls from closing in.
This is architecture that encloses without im-
prisoning ... this is comfort without confinement.
This is the world of picture windows, daylight walls,
sliding glass doors, curtain walls, visual store fronts,
panoramic windshields and backlights. The world of
Thermopane Insulating Glass, Parallel-O- Plate Glass,
Heat Absorbing Plate Glass, Parallel-O-Grey® Plate
Glass. This is the “Open World".
For information on L:O:F Glass, refer to
Sweet's Architectural File 26-A, or call
your nearby L:O-F Distributor or Dealer
(listed under “Glass” in the Yellow Pages).
THE QUALITY MARK
TO LOOK FOR
HOLCOMB & HOKE
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FOLDING PARTITIONS AND DOORS
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Beautiful NEW colors...
bold new textures...
in Foldoor decorator fabrics
Any door or partition in the
Foldoor line—including the exclu-
sive Soundguard Foldoor—can
now be ordered with decorator
fabrics styled to please America’s
foremost architects and designers.
More than 50 colors are available
in a wide selection of patterns and
textures.
Foldoor fabrics are as practical
as they are handsome. They meet
A dramatic new concept in
у ER customized grillework for in-
SEIS Ө stitutions, offices, homes.
Sculptured styrene, factory fabricated in a num-
ber of complete systems . . . ready to install.
Limitless design possibilities — space dividers,
screens, door accents, etc. Available in metallic
or regular colors. For interiors and exteriors.
238 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
the most rigid fire codes, shrug off
wear and abuse. You can count on
these fabrics to stay bright and
beautiful for many years to come.
See Sweet's Architectural File
16e/Ho for full color display of
these fabrics. Ask your Foldoor
distributor for swatch cards.
HOLCOMB & HOKE
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1545 Van Buren Street
Indianapolis 7, Indiana
FOLD OOR
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continued from page 208
Fully Ventilated Athletic Lockers
(A.LA. 35-H-42) Describes, and
gives specifications and details for
All-American line of ventilated ath-
letic lockers. 4 pp. DeBourgh Mfg.
Co., 2924 27th Ave. South, Minne-
apolis, Minn.*
Michaels’ Curtain Wall Index
Includes scaled details for nine dif-
ferent aluminum and steel curtain
wall systems, plus standard doors,
louvers, and vertically pivoted win-
dows. Michaels Art Bronze Co., Box
668, Covington, Ky.*
Southern Pine Millwork
(A.I.A. 19-A-1) Architects’ Bulletin
No. 13 presents a specification guide,
recommendations for treatment, in-
formation on designing special mill-
work, a pattern guide and cross index
for mouldings and trim, and standard
details for window and door frames.
12 pp. Southern Pine Assn., P.O.
Box 1170, New Orleans 4, La.
How to Select and Apply Floodlights
Describes floodlight classifications
and general principles of floodlight-
ing; tells how to calculate light lev-
els in floodlighting vertical and hori-
zontal surfaces; and gives sample
problems and solutions, recommend-
ed footcandle levels for various ap-
plieations, and photometric data for
GE floodlights with filament and
mercury vapor lamps. Bulletin
6175C, revised, 16 pp. General Elec-
trical Co., Schenectady 5, N. Y.*
Permalite Plaster Aggregate
(A.I.A. 21-A-5) Covers applications
of Permalite expanded lightweight
aggregate in general plastering, fire-
proofing and curtain wall construc-
tion. Information on the various mix-
es, thermal conductivity and sound
reduction, and fire-ratings is includ-
ed. Bulletin P-13-1961. Perlite Dept.,
612 S. Flower St., Los Angeles 17,
Calif .*
Registers, Grilles, Diffusers
Catalogs, and gives engineering data
on full line of heating-cooling regis-
ters, grilles and diffusers. 44 pp. Li-
ma Register Co., Lima, Ohio
* Additional product information in
Sweet's Architectural File
more literature on page 242
In today’s most unconventional roof designs...
New NEOPRENE-HYPALON" roofing systems assure
lasting beauty and protection
Imaginative roof designs, embodying geometric forms
of every shape and contour, are today being made
practical by neoprene and HypaLon—a pair of versa-
tile Du Pont synthetic rubbers.
By providing workable solutions to many prob-
lems of modern roof construction, these new roofing
systems free the architect from limitations imposed by
conventional materials. Easily applied over almost
any commonly used substrate, they cure into tough,
elastic, weathertight films having exceptional resist-
ance to ozone and weathering as well as oils and
chemicals, abrasion and flame.
Moreover, they retain these properties despite con-
tinual outdoor exposure, neither soften with heat nor
embrittle with cold, expand and contract with the roof
deck. As a roofing system, neoprene provides low-cost
film build-up; HvPALON, a wide choice of stable, attrac-
tive topcoat colors. Separately or in combination, re-
silient neoprene and HYPALON assure lasting protection
with minimum upkeep.
DuPont produces only the elastomers, neoprene
and Hypaton; not the finished roofing materials them-
selves. For a list of suppliers and our booklet, “Color-
ful, Durable Roof Coatings Made with Neoprene and
Hypaton,” just fill in and mail the coupon. There is
no obligation whatsoever. E. I. du Pont de Nemours
& Co. (Inc.), Elastomer Chemicals Dept. AR-4, Wil-
mington 98, Delaware.
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with circulation hot water system and water
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where other type fuels now used. Suited for
home, churches, motels, apartments, hotels,
hospitals, commercial buildings, swimming pools,
snow melting and domestic hot water for large
users. Temperature range — 60 to 250 degrees.
Equipped with Sequence and Proportional Con-
trols when desired.
© Every unit tested and inspected 40,948 to 2,500,000 B.T.U.
Output.
e All Boilers meet the requirements of the ASME Boiler
and Pressure Vessel Code. Natl. Board approved.
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Write for complete
specifications and prices
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Specify the best...
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For fast, one source specifications on
kitchen equipment for preparing food
and washing the dishes for fifty to
thousands of people per meal, look
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New TALK-A-PHONE
Proportioned like a book, only 3-inches high. The look
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Design for solar screen by Confer, Willis and Anderson, AIA, Oakland, Calif.
Oakland architect envisions office center with Alcoa Sol-Dec Screens
Here is an architect who achieved 100 per cent sun
cutoff with Alcoa* Sol-Dec Screens—as described in
the design detail. But office centers with a shading
problem during sunlight hours are merely one appli-
cation. Other architects are exploring striking new
decorative treatments, as in facings for new or old
schools, hospitals and commercial buildings; overlays
on cooling towers, penthouses, lobby walls and canopy
soffits; vision screens and barriers for rooms, patios
and gardens.
Sol-Dec Screens come in 11 standard patterns, or
your own designs, at reasonable cost. Their surprising
economy is a product of design simplicity and the
ease and speed of the extrusion process.
What can YOU do with Sol-Dec Screens?
Alcoa’s veteran counsel is available without obliga-
tion. Describe your requirements in a letter to: Alu-
minum Company of America, 1821-D Alcoa Building,
Pittsburgh 19, Pa. World-wide sales through Alcoa
International, Inc., 230 Park Avenue, New York 17,
New York.
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Face of basic panel is twisted out of vertical mounting plane to form a hooded
opening. Angle of sun cutoff can be varied easily from project to project accord-
ing to orientation limits. Percentage of openness of screen can be varied by
length of the units cut.
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aged and cured, are permanently, prevents COVERING
contoured for maximum unsightly wrinkles or sags is permanentl
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The quality of Endicott pews is often apparent at first glance (due to
their seven-coat soft, lustrous finish). But Endicott quality is more than
surface deep—it’s built in Only Endicott has Cushion-Eze with
patented Perma-Dowel construction.
What a difference this feature makes in attention-holding comfort,
long-lasting beauty, ease of cleaning and trouble-free maintenance!
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Office Literature
High-Bay Lighting
Defines basic factors involved in in-
dustrial lighting; compares advan-
tages of mercury-vapor and incan-
descent units for various applica-
tions; and describes the High-Bay
line of industrial lighting fixtures.
Bulletin H. Advertising Dept., Ben-
jamin Div., Thomas Industries, Inc.,
207 E. Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
Heavy-Duty Industrial Heaters
Contains descriptions, technical in-
formation, and application and per-
formance data on the OG4 line of
combination oil-gas industrial heat-
ers. 12 pp. Lennox Industries Inc.,
200 South 12th Ave., Marshalltown,
Iowa*
Glazed Structural Masonry Units
(A.I.A. 10-B) Describes features and
advantages of Spectra-Glaze glazed
concrete masonry units; gives data
on physical and chemical properties;
and shows construction details. Full-
color plates of available colors are
also included. 16 pp. Burns & Russell
Co., Box 6063, Baltimore 31, Md.*
Lightfast Color Finishes
Lightfast Architectural Anodic Fin-
ishes (A.I.A. 15-Е) presents infor-
mation and data on the anodizing
process that produces lightfast color
finishes on aluminum. Kaiser Alwmi-
num & Chemical Sales, Inc., Kaiser
Center, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland
12, Calif.*
Forest Products
(A.I.A. 23-L) A series of four cata-
logs gives information and data on
decorative paneling; siding, fir pan-
eling, sheathing and combination
subfloor-underlayment; overlaid and
standard fir plywoods; and hard-
boards. Georgia-Pacific Corp., Equi-
table Bldg., Portland 4, Ore.*
Movable Partitions 1961
(A.LA. 35-H-6) Contains drawings
of systems and applications of pre-
finished movable partition panels.
Also included is technical informa-
tion, installation tips, specifications
and data on physical properties. 8 pp.
Simpson Timber Co., 2040 Washing-
ton Bldg., Seattle 1, Wash.*
* Additional product information in
Sweet's Architectural File
more literature on page 246
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Award-winning design features
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Concrete Wall Fanola
Architects:
Nolan & Swinbourne,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contractor:
John T. Donovan, Builder,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This beautiful library building of
the Gwynedd Mercy Junior College
near Philadelphia won the 1959-60
Design Award presented by the
A.I.A. Local Chapter, Pennsylvania
Society of Architects.
A feature of the award winning
design, and one that adds much to
its attractiveness, is the use of
American-Marietta Concrete Wall
Panels along the top of the building.
Plain concrete or exposed aggre-
gate panels, of load bearing or
curtain type, cut construction time
and provide a decorative appearance
to schools, offices, warehouses,
apartment and industrial buildings.
Other precast concrete elements
such as roof and floor systems,
beams, columns and foundation
grade beams may be combined
with American-Marietta Wall
Panels to offer a variety of unique
architectural designs.
Send for American-Marietta’s
illustrated booklet on money-saving
wall panels and allied components
of precast concrete.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
CONCRETE PRODUCTS DIVISION
GENERAL OFFICES:
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The Chapel of Norman Park College, Norman Park, Georgia
s VISUALLY SIGNIFICANT ROOFS
A trend of major significance in contemporary
Ex SN architecture—and architects everywhere are finding that Follansbee Terne almost
R uniquely incorporates the essential values of form, color and function in such
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natural affinity for color; and no other material provides a greater freedom in
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Architects: Michael Hack, A.1.A., Designer
Henry Whitehead, Jr., A.1.A.
Atlanta, Georgia
Roofer: Maxwell Sheet Metals Works, Inc.,
Thomasville, Georgia
Follansbee is the world's pioneer producer of seamless terne roofing FOLLANSBEE STEEL CORPORATION
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Office Literature
Signaling Equipment and Hardware
Describes electrical signaling equip-
ment, annunciators, apartment house
mailboxes, non-electric door chimes,
and apartment house bell systems.
Catalog BSM, 30 pp. Product Div.,
Auth Electric Co., Inc., 34-20 45th
St., Long Island City 1, N. Y.
Aluminum in Architecture
Six new booklets cover Alcoa alumi-
num gravel stops and copings, indus-
siding products, exterior wall prod-
ucts, and architectural alloys and fin-
ishes. Aluminum Co. of America,
1501 Alcoa Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.*
Electric Comfort Heating
(A.LA. 31-K-3) Describes, illus-
trates, and gives engineering and ap-
plication data for Chromaloa line of
electric comfort heating equipment.
Catalog 975-D, 16 pp. Edwin L. Wie-
gand Co., 7500 Thomas Blvd., Pitts-
trial building products, roofing and burgh 8, Pa.
Cafeteria
Counters
.
Memorial
Union
Building
°
Purdue
University
°
Lafayette
Indiana
Van equipment has served schools
and colleges for half a century
* This Van name plate on much equipment for the preparation and
serving of food is evidence of its satisfactory service on many cam-
puses. Van engineers assist personnel of colleges and their archi-
tects in planning to co-ordinate activity and effort to meet the needs.
* Illustration shows two U-shaped lanes of cafeteria service in the
Memorial Union Building at Purdue where five counters serve 6000
meals daily . . . close to two million meals annually . . . in which Van's
work in engineering and equipment was done in 1952 and 1960.
* Call Van engineers in early when you need food service
equipment.
She John Van Range @
EQUIPMENT FOR THE PREPARATION AND SERVING OF FOOD
Branches in Principal Cities
429 CULVERT STREET CINCINNATI 2, OHIO
246 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Plexiglas in Architecture
(A.I.A. 24) Discusses properties and
characteristics of sheet Plexiglas,
and covers its use in skylights, win-
dow glazing, spandrel panels and lu-
minous walls, luminaires and lumi-
nous ceiling panels, and illuminated
facades, pylons and letters. Catalog
PL-446, 20 pp. Rohm & Haas Co.,
Philadelphia 5, Pa.*
Non-Slip Floor Products
Describes, and gives specifications
for Alundwm vitrified floor prod-
ucts: abrasives, aggregates, and
stair and floor tile. Catalog 1935-17,
8 pp. Norton Co., Worcester 6, Mass.*
Your Guide to the Latest
. in Recessed Lighting includes
complete illustrated descriptions of
a recessed troffer line, supplemented
by detailed mounting information,
and coefficients of utilization and
photometric data for each fixture
with various light controlling panels.
36 pp. Smoot-Holman Co., P. O. Box
4097, Inglewood, Calif.
White Concrete in Architecture
CA.LA. 4-K-1) Discusses and illus-
trates architectural uses of precast
concrete panels, facings and cast
stone units. Included are sections on
exposed aggregates, color, texture,
pattern, shape, size, insulation,
strength and durability, moisture
and fire resistance; and typical in-
stallation details. 32 pp. Atlas White
Sales, Universal Atlas Cement Div.,
United States Steel Corp., 100 Park
Ave., New York 17, N. Y.*
Heavy Timber Construction Details
(А.ГА. 19-B) Gives framing and fas-
tening details for heavy timber col-
umns, floors, roofs and walls. WCD
No. 5, 32 pp. Technical Services Div.,
National Lumber Manufacturers
Assn., 1319 18th St., N.W., Washing-
ton.6, D. C.
Literature Requested
J. W. Hollis, Jr., Professional Engi-
neer, Box 1735, Laurinburg, N. C.
CORRECTION:
“How Europeans Use Polystyrene
Foams,” by Dr. Helmuth Osken, AR-
CHITECTURAL RECORD, February 1961.
Translated by Dr. C. F. Winans,
European Representative, Koppers
Co., Inc., Research Dept.
* Additional product information in
Sweet's Architectural File
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Engineers: Anderson, Bjornstad & Kane, Seattle, Contractor: Brazier Construction Company, Seattle.
Space provided: full size basketball court with seating for 2500 spectators. Roof framing: 125-
foot Triax dome by Timber Structures, Inc., with dome segments of glulam timber. Exterior
walls: tilt-up concrete panels with exposed crushed marble aggregate; glass panels set in
aluminum frames. Interior walls: painted concrete and glass. Heating: peripheral hot air circu-
lating system with ducts below floor level. Ventilation: mechanical and natural systems. Lighting:
mercury vapor fixtures; Everlite skylights. Floor: maple over criss cross spring system. Roof
surface: 20-year bonded glass type over heavy timber decking; ceiling of sprayed asbestos fibre.
Area: 12,272 square feet. Volume: 307,000 cubic feet. Cost: $11.50 a square foot including archi-
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Completely drainable and easily cleaned, Aero-
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The use of 5%” O.D. tubes permits the coil to
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connections and, in installations where sediment
is a problem, the coil can be pitched in either
direction. The simple removal of a single gas-
keted plate at each end of the coil exposes every
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The finned tubes are staggered in the direc-
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Aerofin is sold only by manufacturers of fan system
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Moisture Loss
Must Be Retarded to
Produce Harder, Denser,
More Dust-Free Concrete
An Effective Vapor Barrier
Should Be Used to Stop the
Upward Migration of Moisture
These two quality products warrant your careful
consideration for most concrete floor construction
MOISTOP . А combination of
fungicide-treated reinforced paper laminated to
polyethylene film with a perm rating of 0.15,
Moistop is a permanent barrier against transfer of
moisture vapor. Applied over fill before pouring, its
strength will resist tearing, puncturing and abrasion
from workmen and equipment. Wide widths
mean faster application with minimum lapping.
Moistop and Sisalkraft comply with FHA Minimum Property
Standards for the uses recommended.
Literature and samples on either or both products will be sent
promptly upon request.
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SISALKRAFT.- Tough rein-
forced paper of 101 uses. This product will prevent
rapid drying of newly poured concrete. It is also
an excellent protective cover for the slab during
subsequent construction — keeping debris, mor-
tar, etc., from damaging or marring the floor. The
durability of Sisalkraft permits re-use, bringing its
low cost per square foot down even more.
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FORM — with function and
beauty. Alsynite translucent
panels are yours in a variety
of useful flat panels and
corrugations that nest with
standard materials — or offer
intriguing new possibilities.
Reinforced with millions of
glass fibers, Alsynite is
shatterproof, needs only mini-
mum structural supports. жаз
ILLUMINATION without glare. Translucent Alsynite
diffuses and softens light, yet provides privacy. An
economical choice for daylighting, Alsynite can be
unusually dramatic when used in muted colors.
TEXTURE that contributes to
the over-all character of the
finished structure. Alsynite
offers impressive variety in one
easy-to-handle material. Various
configurations and flat panes in
textured or smooth surfaces —
even panels with decorative
shoji-style embedments.
STRUCTURAL
characteristics
leading architects
rely on. Used in
light-diffusing roof
of the U.S. Pavilion,
Brussels World’s
Fair, Alsynite offers
the user guaranteed
quality. :
Alsynite's own guarantee is backed by the resources of RCI, a great name in chemicals. For
details, consult Sweet's Catalog Index No. 5% or see your dealer, listed in the Yellow Pages
under plastic products. Or for free literature, write Alsynite, San Diego 9,Calif., Dept. AR-461.
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Leviton makes a specification grade device to
last a lifetime. For example:
'The principal working part is a one-piece heavy
phosphor bronze contactor that retains its elas-
ticity through millions of cycles.
'The critical contact points are of special heavy
silver alloy, selected for high conductivity and
low oxidation to prevent arcing.
Quality control during production makes cer-
tain of perfect alignment of contact points and
smooth functioning of the switch.
All parts are assembled in extra heavy molded
phenolic—Leviton switches can take a beating!
Finally—what you can't see—every completed
Switch is electrically tested before you get it.
Available in single pole, double pole and 3-way
. . . in either brown or ivory phenolic. Rating
15A 125-277V, AC only and 20A 125-277V
AC only.
To be truly convinced of Leviton specification
grade quality, install these wiring devices in
your next project. Get complete data on the
Leviton line by writing for Leviton’s ABC hand-
book, that details specifications on over 600
Leviton devices.
Listed by Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc,
Leviton Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn 22, N. Y.
Chicago • Los Angeles • Leviton (Canada) Ltd., Montreal
For your wire needs, contact our subsidiary:
American Insulated Wire Corporation
252 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
The Record Reports
On The Calendar
April
9-15
10-15
11-13
16-20
18-20
18-20
20-22
24-28
29ff
23rd annual convention, Na-
tional Association of Archi-
tectural Metal Manufactur-
ers—Plaza Hotel, New York
City
National convention (first of
three in 1961), American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers;
theme: “Water Resources"—
Westward Ho Hotel, Phoenix,
Ariz.
12th annual convention, Wis-
consin Chapter, A.I.A.—Lake
Lawn Lodge, Delavan, Wis.
30th annual conference,
American Institute of Deco-
rators—Roosevelt Hotel, New
Orleans
Fifth Annual Industrial Mu-
tual Aid and Disaster Con-
trol Seminar, sponsored by
the National Institute for
Disaster Mobilization and the
Channel Industries Mutual
Aids—Shamrock-Hilton Ho-
tel, Houston
1961 Conference on Church
Architecture, sponsored joint-
ly by the Church Architectur-
al Guild of America and De-
partment of Church Building
and Architecture of the Na-
tional Council of the Churches
of Christ in the U.S.A., with
the cooperation of the Pitts-
burgh Chapter, American In-
stitute of Architects and the
Pittsburgh Architectural
Club—Penn-Sheraton Hotel,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
76th annual convention, Illi-
nois Society of Professional
Engineers—Peoria, Ill.
National Convention, Amer-
ican Institute of Architects—
Bellevue-Stratford, Philadel-
phia
24th Annual Maryland House
and Garden Pilgrimage, spon-
sored by the Federated Gar-
den Clubs of Md.; Society for
the Preservation of Md. An-
tiquities; National Society of
Colonial Dames of Md.; Md.
Historical Society; Baltimore
Museum of Art; House tours
and cruises through May 28
Baltimore, Md.
continued on page 256
New
Anemostat
Architectural
Straight Line
Diffusers
Cornell
University
Here is the new Anemostat ASL Archi-
tectural Straight Line Air Diffuser in-
stalled in the Willard Straight Hall of
Cornell University at Ithaca, New York.
This new ASL unit for ceiling or wall
application combines the superior air
diffusion characteristics of all Anemo-
stat air diffusers with the esthetic
appearance of a slender unit with sym-
metrical vanes. The ASL diffusers are
easy to install; no screws, nuts or bolts
are needed.
Write for Anemostat Catalog ASL-70
ANEMOSTAT.
ANEMOSTAT CORPORATION
OF AMERICA
TO East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y.
Representatives in Principal Cities
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ARCHITECT:
M. V. Perrault, the College of Architecture,
Cornell University
ENGINEER:
Leigh St. John Associates, Binghamton, New York
CONTRACTOR:
A. Friederich and Sons Company, Rochester, New York
AC1225
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 253
NEW...
IN PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
these dramatic projects
post-tensioned by Ryerson
United Air Lines Executive Offices—Chicago. Continuous 2-way, waffle-type slabs 2'6" thick. Column spacing 60'x66'.
Now under construction. ARCHITECT: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. coNTRAcTOR: Gust K. Newberg Construction Co.
st. Pius x Seminary бан. Calif. Lift- siti асбон. 9”
flat slab and approximately 30’ column spacing. OWNER: Roman
Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. ARCHITECT: Harry J. Devine.
ENGINEER: Ernest Francis. GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Continental
Construction Co. LIFT-SLAB CONTRACTOR: Vagtborg Lift-Slab
Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif.
254 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Multi-Level Parking Deck for Minas Department Store,
Hammond, Indiana. Non-structural 2" to 6" topping on pre-
cast T beams post-tensioned two ways to provide crack-free
weatherproof slab. Edge beams cast in place with conven-
tional reinforcing. BUILDER: Triangle Parking Corp. ARCHITECT &
ENGINEER: DeLeuw, Cather & Co. coNTRACTOR: Roy C. Clark, Inc.
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Century 21 Exposition Coliseum— Seattle. Column-free interior 400' square, 115’ high. Edge beams are post-tensioned
and aluminum roof panels are supported by tensioned cables of galvanized wire. BUILDER: State of Washington, Dept. of
Commerce & Economic Development. ARCHITECT: Paul Thiry. CONTRACTOR: Howard S. Wright Construction Co.
Presents new opportunities
As use of prestressed concrete gains momen-
tum, Ryerson continues to set the pace with a
complete service for this type of construction.
Using the BBRV system, Ryerson post-ten-
sioning service makes prestressing more prac-
tical and economical than ever—and presents
new and dramatic construction opportunities
such as those illustrated here.
Covers every operation
This unique Ryerson service covers prestressed
concrete application completely—from adap-
tion of the engineers’ design through the final
stages of field erection . . . including force de-
velopment calculations, quality-controlled
tendon and anchorage assembly, equipment
for precise stressing and positive grouting,
job-site technical assistance and dependably
scheduled deliveries. And the entire service is
all wrapped up in a complete, single-price
post-tensioning package.
For further information on post-tensioning
and other Ryerson products and services for
the construction industry, contact your near-
by Ryerson plant.
RYERSON
JOSEPH T. RYERSON & SON, INC., MEMBER OF THE QD, STEEL FAMILY
ey e. BL > ЭА. چیو ا
Post-Tensioned Precast I-Beam-—— showing Ryerson assem
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bled tendons and reinforcing in place.
Re-Bars and Accessories * Post-Tensioning * Spirals *
Open-Web Joists * Wire Mesh * Structural Shapes and
Tubing * Safety Plate - Stainless Steel - Aluminum Building
Products - PVC Water Stops * Expanded Metal · Grating, etc.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 255
The Record Reports
continued from page 252
30ff American Society of Planning
Officials’ National Planning
Conference; through May 4
—Denver Hilton Hotel, Den-
ver
Mug. аьа اك LN
4-6 Fifth annual meeting, Board
of Directors, Consulting En-
gineers Council—Executive
House, Chicago
7-10 International Conference and
Office Equipment Exposition,
sponsored by National Office
Management Association—
Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel and
Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis
12-14 South Atlantic American In-
stitute of Architect's Regional
Conference; theme: “Сопїїп-
uing X Education"—Winston-
Salem, N.C.
14-18 Annual meeting, National
Fire Protection Association
—Detroit
16-18 Building Research Institute
STERILIZATION ROOM STORAGE
FOR HOSPITAL STORAGE ILLS!
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LINEN CLOSET STORAGE
Here’s the miracle cure for hospital storage ills. It’s Erecta-Shelf,
the steel rod shelving that provides unlimited use at a limited cost.
No special skills or tools are required to set up Erecta-Shelf.
Units erect quickly without nuts or bolts and may be arranged
end to end, back to back or one atop another.
Erecta-Shelf follows any floor plan — meets most any height,
depth or width requirement. Shelves support up to 1,000 pounds each.
Erecta-Shelfs clean open construction permits free air circula-
tion. There are no flat surfaces to collect dust. In short — whatever,
wherever you store, you'll never need more than Erecta-Shelf!
Erecta-Shelfs a real panacea for all your storage
problems. Ask your supplier for details or write for a
brochure today!
The Seal of Sanitation Quality!
E RECTA
A quality product of METROPOLITAN WIRE GOODS CORP.
N. Washington St. and George Ave.
256 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Available chrome plated or stainless steel
FOOD PANTRY STORAGE
GENERAL STORAGE
SHELF.
* Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1961 Spring Conferences—
Shoreham Hotel, Washing-
ton, D.C.
1961 convention, Royal Archi-
tectural Institute of Canada;
theme: “The Building Com-
munity"— Chateau Fronte-
nac, Quebec City, Canada
22-24 Fifth annual convention,
Construction Specifications
Institute—Commodore Hotel,
МҮ.
22-26 41st International Conference
and Office Exposition of the
National Office Management
Association—Queen Eliza-
beth Hotel and Show Mart,
Montreal
17-20
June
5-7 First Inter-governmental
Symposium on Urban Renew-
al, organized by the United
Nations Economic Commis-
sion for Europe's Housing
Committee—Palais des Na-
tions, Geneva, Switzerland
5-9 Ninth National Plastics Ex-
position, sponsored by the
Society of the Plastics Indus-
try Inc.—The Coliseum, New
York
25-30 Annual meeting, American
Society for Testing Materials
—Chalfonte-Haddon Hall,
Atlantic City
26-28 Annual meeting, American
Society of Heating, Refrig-
erating and Air-Condition-
ing Engineers—Denver
Office Notes
Offices Opened PA
The firm of Allan & Olsson, Ar-
chitects, Phoenix, Ariz., has opened
а branch office at Suite No. 1, Union
Building, 112 West Gurley, Prescott,
Ariz.
New Firms, Firm Changes
A limited partnership has been
formed by Max W. Moody and How-
ard O. Wallace to offer professional
services in the fields of architec-
tural, structural and civil engineer-
ing under the name of Wallace &
Moody, Planners and Engineers.
The firm's address is 861 Mapuna-
puna St., Honolulu 17, Hawaii
Carl F. Burmeister Jr. and
Thomas B. Bealle Jr. announce the
formation of à partnership for the
continued on page 264
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AND DESIGN
THE BIRD KING-TAB ARCHITECT GIVES MAJESTY
AND WEIGHT TO A MODERN HIGH-GABLE ROOF
A sweeping expanse of roof is the dominant feature of this distinguished house of
worship — another example of the Bird King-Tab Architect Shingle's perfect conformity
with the design. In this instance, Gothic Slate Blende was used, with a slatelike effect.
Conformity with Design achieved by the Architect's 18" King-Tabs — 50% less vertical
lines accentuate the horizontal.
Uniformity of Surfacing in even distribution of jumbo color granules controlled in manu-
facture — no unsightly application on site.
Greater Safety, Triple Protection: 300 Ibs. per square, thick as standard slate; 3 full
layers at every point, with 5" exposure. Flatter roofs, pitched as low as 2” in 12", use it
with complete safety. {
ARCADIA BAPTIST CHURCH, SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA.
A. HUGH CHAPMAN, JR., ARCHITECT
See Specifications in SWEETS FILE Bc «зе
Architect Shingles
or write BIRD & SON, INC.
BOX AR-41, EAST WALPOLE, MASS.
CHARLESTON, S. C., SHREVEPORT, LA.
CHICAGO, ILL.
MOISTURE AND TERMITES A PROBLEM? Write for details on Bird Termite Prevention System and Vapor Barrier
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 257
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
New York Testing Laboratories, Inc.
Confirms the Dramatic Superiorities of
New Competitively Priced
MATICO POLYMERITE
FLOOR TILE
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GREASE RESISTANT
2.
FLAME RETARDANT
9.
LONGER WEAR
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
Proved Grease Resistance in unbiased, authoritative tests by this world-famous Research
Laboratory. Matico Polymerite is the ONLY Low-Price Floor Tile offering this proof. New York
Testing Laboratories, Inc. evaluated new Matico Polymerite Floor Tile vs. eight competitive
brands of Asphalt Tile (purchased on the open market). Test standards were Federal Specifica-
tion SS-T-307, Grease Resistant Asphalt Tile. Polymerite conformed fully to specifications for
Oil and Alkali Resistance. All eight competitive brands failed .
Proved Flame Retardance—the ONLY Low-Price Floor Tile tested to pass evaluations at
New York Testing Laboratories. Matico Polymerite Tile met strict U.S. Navy requirements for
Flame Retardance under Military Specifications MIL-T-18830 (Ships). Hight competitive brands
of Asphalt Tile tested failed! Polymerite Tile is one of the safest floorings for home and industry.
Proved Durability—the ONLY Low-Price Floor Tile tested to meet stringent Navy Wear
Resistance Tests. Matico Polymerite Floor Tile conformed fully with Resistance to Wear re-
quirements under Military Specifications MIL-T-18830 (Ships). All eight competitive brands of
Asphalt Tile failed this test. Other measuring factors indicate that Matico Polymerite Floor Tile
provides up to twice the wear of ordinary Asphalt Tile.
Backed by eight years of research...
and a multi-million dollar plant investment
Matico Polymerite Floor Tile is a new concept in flooring . . . a technological triumph
made possible by eight years of research, eulminating in a revolutionary resin.
Perfected as a joint venture of The RUBEROID Co., and the Air Reduction Cor-
poration, this new resin is made in a giant plant designed for its large-scale production.
Polymerite makes possible a floor tile with the characteristics of fine tile: brilliant, clear
colors...resiliency...tight, smooth, easily-maintained surface...greater light reflection
... grease and stain resistance... flame retardance ... greater resistance to wear. Yet its
price compares with the most economical types of tile.
To our best knowledge, Matico Polymerite is the only floor tile with all the superior-
ities described, at such a low competitive price.
A copy of the official report documenting
these findings is available on request. Write М AT { C CQ
Mastic Tile Division, The RUBEROID Co.
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MATICO POLYMERITE FLOOR TILE is a trademark of The RUBEROID Co.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
259
BY CATERPILLAR
When you design or install air conditioning for com-
mercial buildings around a Caterpillar Natural Gas
Engine, you can insure clients materially lower operat-
ing costs.
Cat Natural Gas Engines often pay for themselves
in only a few seasons. Calculations show that a Cat
G342 can power a centrifugal compressor for less than
lóé per ton hour, based on a natural gas rate of
60¢/MCF. This includes fuel, engine depreciation,
and maintenance.
Cat Natural Gas Engines operate up to 30,000
hours before major overhaul—or about 10 years of
air conditioning service. Furthermore, Cat Natural
Gas Engines do not have to be derated because they
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engine HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THIS
power UNUSUAL APPROACH TO LOWERED
AIR CONDITIONING BILLS ?
Reduce air condi-
tioning costs for
clients. Drive the com-
pressor with a Cat Natu-
ral Gas Engine, as shown.
Power is not affected by peak
demand. Natural gas rates dur-
ing summer months are as much as
40% lower than winter rates. Cat Nat-
ural Gas Engines (10.5:1 compression
ratio) use methane-type gases or, with
7.5:1 compression ratio, butane, mixed
gases or field gas.
are built on a basic diesel frame—with all the diesel
strength intact. With some types of natural gas en-
gines, it is necessary to reduce output in order to
achieve reasonable life.
The Cat Natural Gas Engine is as easily maintained
as a Cat Diesel. No special technical training is needed.
Caterpillar Dealers located throughout the country
insure that parts and service will be available for the
life of the engine.
If your clients are seeking every opportunity to
reduce costs, we urge you to investigate the Cat
Natural Gas Engine for air conditioning. Write to us
direct, call your Caterpillar Dealer, or talk with air
conditioning equipment manufacturers.
The Cat Turbocharged-Aftercooled G342 Natural Gas Engine produces
280 continuous HP @ 1200 RPM in the 10.5:1 compression ratio and
235 continuous HP @ 1000 RPM in the 7.5:1 compression ratio. The
six-cylinder, four-cycle G342 Natural Gas Engine utilizes a low-tension
ignition system. The electric set shown here produces 175 KW continuous
or 200 KW on an emergency basis.
CATERPILLAR
Caterpillar and Cat are Registered Trademarks of Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Engine Division, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Illinois, U.S.A.
Specify HOLOPHANE
for the BEST LIGHTING
at Every Level of Learning
Relighting the Library, Butler Hall,
Columbia University...(Mercury Vapor)
Holophane No. 640 Prismatic Reflectors
with color-corrected lamps... Result:
vastly increased illumination, economical
installation and maintenance.
Art Classroom, High School,
Newport Beach, Cal. ...(Incandescent)
Maximum lighting on the work areas
provided by Holophane In-Bilt
No. F-1570 luminaires with 300
watt lamps.
Kindergarten, Roosevelt Elementary School,
Worcester, Massachusetts... (Fluorescent)
For.effective, comfortable illumination of
this study-play room—Holophane
No. 6500 REALITE® combined with
No. 6024 Two-Foot-Square
CONTROLENS®.
Fi O L O | zd i A RA E ) А recent survey by impartial school authorities states
PW a 7 that Holophane lighting equipment is rated first in 3 out of
COMPANY, INC. • Lighting Authorities Since 1898 4 major classifications... Investigate how Holophane
342 Madison Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Prismatically Controlled lighting can produce better
THE HOLOPHANE CO., LTD., 418 KIPLING AVE. SO., TORONTO 18, ONT. educational illumination at low per annum cost.
When in New York—Visit HOLOPHANE LIGHT & VISION INSTITUTE...Convenient: 342 Madison Ave. (at 44th St.)
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 261
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New Pan American World Airways Passenger Terminal, New York International Airport.
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Architects and Engineers: Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, New York,
Associated Architects: Ilves, Turano and Gardner.
SARALOY 400
frees design from conventional flashing limitations,
cuts flashing labor costs 25% for new air terminal
45,000 square feet of Saraloy 400 roof flashing
provide hundreds of permanent moisture seals
for this ultra-modern air terminal. Among
the many critical flashing problems solved by
Saraloy 400 were: sealing 875 acute and
obtuse angles created by almost inaccessible
junctures of structural steel beams and pur-
lins; flashing steel-to-concrete joints and
lining scupper holes.
The design of the terminal's elliptical canti-
levered roof produced 144 different odd
shapes and angles where beams, purlins and
equipment housing shells meet. Flashing with
conventional materials would require that
each seal be specially cut and custom-fitted,
often to match curved contours. The labor
costs for installing metal flashing would have
been prohibitive. Because Saraloy 400 could
be quickly and easily cut and formed on the
job, labor eosts were about 25% less than
the cost of installing conventional flashing
materials. And each seal is permanent.
Saraloy 400 is Dow's brand of flexible roof
flashing. It can be bonded to almost any
construction material, such as concrete, wood,
metal, ceramic, and it can be painted. It pro-
vides a permanent watertight seal which
won't check, peel or crack . . . and which
moves with building contraction and expan-
sion. For more information write to THE
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Midland,
Michigan, Plastics Sales Dept. 1501 M4.
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
Saraloy accomplishes difficult flashing
of bolted girder-purlin intersection
OTHER DOW BUILDING PRODUCTS
STYROFOAM* — Long-lasting insulation for
cavity walls; effective insulating base for
plaster and wallboard. Rigid, low “К” factor,
highly resistant to water and water vapor.
SCORBORD* (pat. applied for)—Superior rigid
insulation for foundation perimeters, slab
floors. Exclusive pre-scoring speedsinstallation.
ROOFMATE*— Lightweight, rigid insulation
for built-up roofs serves as its own moisture
barrier. Reduces blistering, resultant leaks.
2' x 4’ boards speed installation. ^ *rrapemar«
Midland, Michigan
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
268
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continued from page 256
general practice of architecture
under the firm name of Burmeister
and Bealle-Architects, 191415 Grant
St., Mobile, Ala.
Monroe Schwartz has been named
an associate of Jack Alan Bialosky,
Associates, Cleveland architectural
firm. He will be in charge of the
production department.
Maynard D. Houston has joined
the management group of Charles
Luckman Associates, planning-ar-
chitecture-engineering firm, 105
Angeles and New York, as an exec-
utive architect. Since 1954 he has
headed the firm of Maynard D.
Houston & Associates, Beverly
Hills, Calif.
William B. Heller has become a
partner in the firm of Carson, Lun-
din & Shaw, Architects at 425 Park
Ave. New York 22.
In November architect Richard
G. Millman joined the Ann Arbor,
Mich. firm of Kainlauri, MacMullan
& Associates, Inc. as one of the
why
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fire
alarm
system
like
à
parachute a
264 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
... It's too late to take either one
back if it doesn’t work.
Moral: If parachute jumping is your
hobby, be sure the one who folds your
parachute knows his business. If fire
protection is your responsibility (and
it’s everyone’s) be sure the system
you recommend is made by people who
know their business.
flutocall
SAFEGUARDS MILLIONS
THE AUTOCALL COMPANY, SHELBY 1, OHIO
principals. The company name has
now been changed to Kainlauri,
MacMullan, Millman, Associates,
Inc., Architects and Engineers.
The formation of Leo Kornblath
Associates, architectural and de-
sign firm, with offices at 18 E. 41st
St., New York City and in Hato Rey,
Santurce, Puerto Rico, marks the
end of a 14-year association with
the architectural team of Morris
Lapidus, Kornblath, Harle & Leib-
man. Mr. Kornblath has been a part-
ner for the past eight years.
Kelly & Gruzen, architects and
engineers of New York and Newark,
has elected Richard H. Gordon,
R.A., to the rank of Associate. He
will be concerned with architec-
tural planning for urban renewal
and other large scale housing pro-
grams.
Joseph S. Ward and Associates,
Consulting Soils and Foundation
Engineers of Caldwell, N.J., has ad-
mitted Joseph M. De Salvo to gen-
eral partnership. With the firm since
1952, Mr. De Salvo is presently vice
president of Joseph S. Ward, Inc.,
also in Caldwell, and executive vice
president of the firm's Philadelphia
affiliate.
William S. Lewis Jr., architect,
has been appointed vice president
of the San Diego, Calif., firm of
Deems-Martin, Associates.
Barry J. Callari has been named
a new partner in the firm of G. Ross
Murrell, Jr., Architect, 2987 Govern-
ment St., Baton Rouge, La. The firm
name has been changed to: Ross
Murrell and Barry Callari, Archi-
tects. А new associate member of
the company is Betty Redding Lee.
Formerly a principal in Magney,
Setter, Leach and Lindstrom, Inc.,
Minneapolis, Minn., John R. Mag-
ney has opened offices in Suite 808,
Foshay Tower, Minneapolis for the
practice of architecture under his
own name. Mr. Magney is president
of the Minnesota Society of Archi-
tects.
Francis B. Jacobberger, Everett
B. Franks and Richard W. Norman
announce their partnership in the
firm of Jacobberger-Franks-and-
Norman, Architects, 512 McKay
Building, Portland 4, Ore.
Martin Reinheimer is now a part-
ner in the architectural firm of
Hirschfeld & Pawlan, M. Rein-
heimer, Associate. The firm name
has been changed to Hirschfeld,
continued on page 268
FROM THE ROOF...
THIS CARRIER UNIT
CAN HEAT AND COOL
A ONE-STORY BUILDING
without using any floor or wall space!
Designed for installation on the roof of one-
story buildings, this low-silhouette Carrier
Air-Cooled Weathermaker* permits com-
plete utilization of floor and wall space. Two
capacities fit most heating and cooling re-
quirements—7.5 and 10 tons for cooling;
160,000 and 200,000 Btus for heating. For
larger requirements, it can be installed in
multiples.
Installation is fast, simple and economical.
Expensive ductwork is eliminated, since the
unit installs with a single supply and return
air duct, thereby requiring only one duct
passage to be cut through the roof. Installa-
tion is further simplified with only three
service connections.
Besides the 48B for heating and cooling,
there are two other on-the-roof Weather-
makers—the 50AA for cooling only and the
64AA Heat Pump. For information, call
your Carrier dealer, listed in the Yellow
Pages. Or write Carrier Air Conditioning
Company, Syracuse 1, New York.
*Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
Carrier 48B Air-Cooled On-the-Roof Weathermaker consists of
a gas-fired heating section, a fan section and an air-cooled refrigera-
tion section for cooling—all enclosed in a weatherproof casing and
mounted on rails. The refrigerant piping is installed and the unit
is dehydrated, charged with refrigerant and tested at the factory.
Unit is also completely factory wired.
dm ium
One supply and return air grille fits flush to ceiling—leaves
ceiling, floor and walls clear and uncluttered.
m2 7^
A single unit will both heat and cool a small store or plant.
Large buildings require two or more units to heat and cool.
Air Conditioning Company
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 265
The Hillside School is one of three concepts developed for NLMA’s new book, “Blueprint for
Better Schools.” An inner court allows excellent lighting and easy access to lower classrooms on
the downhill side. Modular modified mill construction offers prefabrication of many components.
The Pavilion School stands for economy, is adaptable to practically any site and designed for
expansion using additional units. This structure provides six classrooms around a main room,
all with standard frame construction and wood paneling. Exterior permits a choice of siding.
266 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
‘or schools dedicated to the needs of tomorrow
and the better way with WOOD
Vood’s familiar warmth reassures the student, relaxes the
zacher . . . to create an unrivaled environment for learn-
па. Wood's flexibility takes advantage of the most modern
aethods known, to build a better school free from tradi-
ional restrictions.
Nood’s workability permits simplicity in classroom plan-
ling, sweeping overhead laminated beams in gymnasium
lesign. Its inherent acoustical qualities help maintain a
1ushed library, carry a voice from the stage to all seats in a
‘pacious auditorium. You'll find, too, the economies of
wood make it easier to plan schools within the frame of
for freedom of design, lo
ichools designed for NLMA by Cooper and Auerbach, A.I.A., Washington, D.C.
community budgets . . . and моод? capacity for wear and
alteration becomes a continuing asset.
For your free copy of the book, “Blueprint for Better
Schools,’ and information about NLMA’s new 22-minute
color motion picture on school planning with wood, write:
NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
Wood Information Center, 1319 18th St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
The Compact School, with its exciting design and structural simplicity, was planned for a level site. Its vast
multi-purpose room has a depressed floor-level to afford a straight laminated wood beam roof for economy,
continuous skylights over each corridor for brighter interiors. Classrooms open onto separate patios.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
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continued from page 264
Pawlan & Reinheimer. Offices are at
327 South La Salle St., Chicago.
The firm name of Warren W.
Kane, Architect has been changed
to Kane and Graves, Architects. The
address has also been changed to
101 S.W. 24th St., Austin, Minn.
Bolton White, Jack Hermann and
Allan Steinau announce an associa-
tion with Don Hatch to form the
firm of Don Hatch-Bolton White-
Jack Hermann-Allan Steinau, Ar-
chitects A.I.A. The address is 680
Beach St., San Francisco 9.
Harold R. Wright, architect and
registered professional engineer,
is now president of Cuddie Engi-
neers, Inc. of Birmingham, Mich.
William Gillett has been made office
manager and Calvin J. Saari, man-
ager of structural detailing depart-
ment.
Charles A. Pearson Jr. is now a
partner with Joseph H. Saunders,
Alexandria, Va. and Washington,
D.C. The firm name is now Saunders
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& Pearson, Architects.
Milton B. Steinmann, Alexander
S. Corrigill, Walker O. Cain and
Cornelius J. White, who have long
been associated with McKim Mead
& White, have formed the firm of
Steinmann, Corrigill, Cain & White.
They will practice architecture in
association with McKim Mead &
White, 101 Park Ave., New York 17.
A new associate in the firm of
McKim Mead & White, New York,
is John Gray Faron.
New Addresses
Mr. Paul Ettington, Vern E.
Alden Company, Engineers, 173
West Madison St., Chicago 2, Ill.
Robert D. Haugaard Jr., A.LA.,
127 South Los Robles, Pasadena,
Calif.
Elections
John W. Handy Jr. has been named
president of the Connecticut Society
of Architects at the group's 22nd
annual meeting. Other officers are:
Sinclair A. Adam, vice president;
Arthur E. Thomas, second vice pres-
ident; Henry T. Moeckle Jr., secre-
tary; and James L. Meagher Jr.,
treasurer. Additions to the execu-
tive committee for a three year term
include Malcolm R. Knox, Walter R.
Furey and Norman L. Raymond.
Serving his second term as president
of the National Sculpture Society is
C. Paul Jennewein, known for his
architectural and memorial sculp-
ture. Other officers are: Adolph
Block, first vice president; Lewis G.
Adams, A.LA., second vice presi-
dent; Frances K. Trees, treasurer;
Herbert L. Kammerer, secretary;
Eleanor Platt, recording secretary.
Irving L. Lazere, executive vice
president of Psaty & Fuhrman, Inc.,
New York, has been elected presi-
dent of the General Building Con-
tractors Association of New York
State. Also elected were: Philip
Thoin, Buffalo, N.Y., first vice presi-
dent; Adam G. Friederich, Roches-
ter, N.Y., second vice president; and
I. Slutzky, Hunter, N.Y., secretary
and treasurer.
Richard Roth, A.I.A., past president
of the New York Society of Archi-
tects, partner in Emery Roth & Sons,
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Two problems challenged the designers
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time is maintained by supervisory pulses each hour
of the new Valley Forge High School put special RC
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PLANNING THE NEW SCHOOL
A population explosion at Parma, Ohio completely overtaxed *
secondary school facilities. Rather than expand the old school, .
construction of the new Valley Forge High School was started
in May of 1960 and scheduled for completion in advance of
the school year beginning September 1961 at a completed cost ы STROMBE RG
of $4,000,000. The new structures — containing 70 classrooms, .
adequate library, science, language, shop and music facilities,
as well as an ample auditorium, cafeteria and gymnasium — 3 DI V ISION
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continued from page 268
has been elected president of the
Architects Council of New York
City. Also elected to serve for 1961
were: Max M. Simon, A.LA., vice
president; Donald E. Peters, A.I.A.,
secretary; and George J. Cavalieri,
A.LA., treasurer.
H. Earl Fullilove has been named
chairman of the Board of Governors
of the Building Trades Employers'
Association. Vice-chairman of the
board since 1959, Mr. Fullilove suc-
ceeds Peter W. Eller, board chair-
man since 1949. Mr. Eller continues
as consultant to B.T.E.A.
New officers of the California State
Board of Architectural Examiners
are: Howard A. Friedman, АЛ.А.,
president; Joseph L. Johnson,
А Т.А., secretary.
Clifford Е. Young, partner іп McAu-
liffe, Young & Associates, Honolulu,
has been elected president of the
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Hawaii Chapter of the American In-
stitute of Architects. Other new of-
ficers are: Gordon A. Bradley, vice
president; George V. Whisenand,
secretary; and Paul D. Jones, treas-
urer. Directors are George J. Wim-
berly, Kenji Onodera and outgoing
president Frank б. Haines.
The new administration for the
Groupe Americain of the Societé des
Architectes Diplomes-Par-Le Gou-
vernement is: president, Lucien Da-
vid; vice president, Lewis G. Adams;
secretary-treasurer, Charles Rieger.
Other members of the Board are:
Lyman Dudley, Jacques E. Guiton,
Caleb Hornbostel, Julian Clarence
Levi, John C. B. Moore and Alexan-
der P. Morgan.
At the annual meeting of the Aca-
demicians of the National Academy
of Design, John F. Harbeson, F.A.-
LA., was elected president. Elected
to Academicianship was Richard
Kimball, A.I.A.
New president of the National Asso-
ciation of Real Estate Boards is O.
G. Powell, Des Moines, Ia. Daniel F.
Sheehan, St. Louis, Mo., is treasurer.
Appointments
James Johnson Sweeney, director of
the Guggenheim Museum since 1952,
has been appointed director of the
Museum of Fine Arts of Houston.
The new director, who visited Hous-
ton in 1958 to lecture at the Univer-
sity of St. Thomas, sees the museum
as greatly enhanced by two recent
major gifts: Cullinan Hall, designed
by Mies van der Rohe, and Miss
Ima Hogg's collection of American
paintings and furniture. The ap-
pointment of Mr. Sweeney is the first
step of an ambitious and energetic
plan to establish Houston as a na-
tional center of the arts on an inter-
national plane.
New director of the Solomon К.
Guggenheim Museum in New York
is Thomas M. Messer. He has been
director of the Roswell Museum in
New Mexico, director of the Ameri-
can Federation of Arts in New
York, director of the Institute of
Contemporary Arts in Boston.
"In the development of his pro-
gram," said Harry F. Guggenheim,
president of the Guggenheim Foun-
dation, *Mr. Messer will work in close
continued on page 284
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SOLEX” glass protects their eyes..
In the corridors, PPG polished plate glass was used in the upper sections and HERCULITE
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HERCULITE" protects the school
Large expanses of glass create a feeling of unlimited spaciousness in the new Quincy,
Illinois, Senior High School. Glass performs many practical functions, too. PPG SOLEX
green tint, glare-reducing, heat-absorbing glass not only protects young eyes from solar
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Almost every major building you see here in New Haven has a
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Haven’s investment in buildings.
And because New Haven’s current redevelopment program
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cooperation with Mr. H. H. Arnason
who, as vice president for Art Ad-
ministration, will be the fulltime
representative of the President and
Board of Trustees to the director,
business manager, and staff of the
museum.”
Northwestern Engineer Program
Gets Three Major Grants
Three major grants totaling $310,000
have been made to the environmen-
tal engineering program at North-
western University by the U.S. Pub-
lic Health Service. To be awarded
over a five year period, the grants
provide for 1) graduate fellowships
to permit more students to enter the
field 2) broadening Northwestern’s
course offerings and research to in-
clude air pollution, urban planning
aspects of environmental engineer-
ing and sanitary chemistry.
A $150,000 research training
grant provides for four or five grad-
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uate fellowships, which will permit
more postgraduate students to join
the 15 already studying environmen-
tal engineering at Northwestern.
The grant also permits offering
courses in air pollution. Dr. Jimmie
Quon from the University of Califor-
nia has joined the faculty and is or-
ganizing air pollution courses and a
laboratory.
A second grant of $100,000 pro-
vides for adding a professor of en-
vironmental engineering who spe-
cializes in urban planning.
The $60,000 third grant provides
for an added faculty member, new
courses and research in sanitary
chemistry.
City Planning Undergraduate
Program at Cincinnati U.
Newly established at the College of
Applied Arts, University of Cincin-
nati, Cincinnati, Ohio, is an under-
graduate program in city planning
based upon the co-operative system
of education.
The curriculum presents a bal-
anced program of both general and
technical subjects. Included in the
five-year program are: liberal stud-
ies in literature, history, mathe-
matics, philosophy, etc.; socio-eco-
nomic studies in the social economic
and political sciences and in related
fields; and physical planning deal-
ing with design, land use, highways,
subdivisions, etc. The student can
draw upon the resources of several
colleges of the University as he
takes required or elective courses.
The degree granted is Bachelor of
Science-major in city planning.
The co-operative plan of educa-
tion, originated at the University
of Cincinnati in 1906, combines
theory and practice in one compre-
hensive educational program. The
student receives practical experi-
ence while enrolled as a student.
The first year in the College of
Applied Arts consists of a full-time
nine months’ program. Co-operative
work begins at the end of the fresh-
man year and continues through la-
ter years with alternating periods of
school studies and practical work
experience. All details dealing with
co-operative jobs are handled by
special co-ordinators who make all
necessary arrangements about pay,
working conditions and length of
time assigned to a particular type
of training.
more news on page 292
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The Record Reports
continued from page 284
A.I.A.-A.S.C.A. Seminar:
Cranbrook Academy in June
A ten day seminar for some 50
teachers of architecture from as
many schools will be held June 6-16
at Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Sponsored jointly by the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects and the
Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture, the seminar is another
in the series held annually since
1956 to provide an informal ex-
change of views and experiences and
to help improve architectural educa-
tion.
Arrangements for the seminar are
being made by a newly appointed
Policy and Guidance Committee
comprising: James M. Hunter,
F.A.LA., representing the A.LA.;
Buford L. Pickens, A.I.A., represent-
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In appointing this committee, the
A.I.A. Board of Directors at its re-
cently concluded annual meeting
also voted to increase A.LA.s fi-
nancial assistance for the teachers'
summer seminars from special edu-
cational funds. A.I.A.'s assistance is
supplemented by contributions from
its chapters and state associations,
the schools and from other sponsors.
They help defray expenses of teach-
ers of architecture from the United
States and Canada who otherwise
could not attend, in the form of one-
half expense scholarships awarded
by the committee.
The Cranbrook seminar will dis-
cuss environment as well as profes-
sional responsibilities and teaching
aims.
Nuclear Engineering Ph.D.
Approved at Illinois
The Board of Trustees at the Uni-
versity of Illinois has approved the
establishment of an advanced edu-
cational program leading to the
Doctor of Philosophy degree in the
field of nuclear engineering. Action
on the new program has come two
years after the University’s initia-
tion of nuclear engineering at the
master’s degree level. During that
period 18 degrees have been
awarded, and physical facilities
now include the Illinois TRIGA nu-
clear reactor, three sub-critical as-
semblies, a heat transfer loop, a
radio chemistry laboratory and a
nuclear metallurgy laboratory. The
reactor began operation last July.
Professor Ross J. Martin, chair-
man of the nuclear committee, said,
“The program is based on assump-
tion that nuclear engineering is a
new field, building on existing engi-
neering disciplines and physical
sciences, and dealing with the ap-
plications of nuclear reactions and
radiations to engineering.
“Nuclear engineering uses knowl-
edge from many areas of engineer-
ing and science. For this reason, the
new doctoral program, like the ex-
isting master’s degree program, will
be directed by a committee with
members of the graduate faculty
from all departments of the College
of Engineering.”
Demand for the doctoral program
is strong among the nuclear engi-
neering graduate students. More
than a third have already expressed
continued on page 300
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Steel Pipe . . . the versatile "common carrier"
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Behind the towering facades of the nation’s ever
growing skylines, steel pipe efficiently and eco-
| nomically meets the needs for dependable heat,
waste, water and vent lines. And when the lights
flick on, telephones ring, elevators move, their
power is conveyed and protected in rigid steel
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Versatile steel pipe has inherent strength and
rigidity. It is easy to join and form into the most
intricate shapes. Steel pipe is economical . . . no
other metal tubular product provides the ready
availability, low initial cost and low installed cost.
These are some of the reasons why steel pipe
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Sweet's Catalog.
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Four Fine Facilities
in PITTSBURGH
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Opposite Greater Pittsburgh Airport.
60 air-conditioned rooms, tile bath, TV,
radio, phone. Superb restaurant and
cocktail lounge. Year-round swimming
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radio, TV, private phone. Courtesy car
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To change the “face” and the interior of a building and
still retain the essence, the character, the flavor, the best
of a tradition is one of the problems of architects and de-
signers. An example of how this can be accomplished is the
Midston House at 38th Street at Madison Avenue. To be
known as the Hotel Lancaster, the metamorphisis is one of
the most comprehensive ever undertaken on New York’s
East Side.
Combining tradition with progress is solved by using
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Designers: The Walter M. Ballard Corporation
General Contractor: Herbert Construction Company
Granite: "Kershaw" for Facing and Trim
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building material because it’s vaporproof
it’s cellular glass
An unusual curtain wall panel makes unusual demands on its insula-
tion. FOAMGLAS complements this Bell Telephone design, Consho-
hocken, Pa., where panels are projected to create vertical accents in
depth. The cellular glass insulation stays impervious to vapor and
water, maintaining its high compressive strength, firmness, rigidity
and dimensional stability.
Over 82,000 sq. ft. of FOAMGLAS insulates these glass spandrel panels
at the Connecticut General Life Insurance Building, Bloomington, Conn.
Fabricated right on the job, FOAMGLAS protects the steel from air and
moisture damage while it serves as the backing for the metal flashing
that rings the building.
FOAMGLAS Stay-Dry Pipe Insulation provides the important benefits
of FOAMGLAS for all building service lines; iced water, chilled water,
low-pressure steam or dual temperature runs. In addition to the vapor
and moisture protection, the insulation is fireproof, will not slump or
sag, and will not compress around saddle supports.
No extra vapor seals are neces-
sary with FOAMGLAS. It forms its PITTSBURGH
own vapor barrier. That means a
dependable seal against both
moisture migration through the
insulation and condensation
within it.
Write for information on the com-
plete line of FOAMGLAS products,
and how they can work in your
toughest applications. Address:
Pittsburgh Corning Corporation,
Dept. E-41, One Gateway Center, C O R N I N G
Pittsburgh 22, Pa. In Canada:
3333 Cavendish Blvd., Montreal,
Quebec.
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continued from page 292
interest in entering the new pro-
gram.
The program is expected to pro-
vide stimulus to the College of En-
gineering's research in nuclear en-
gineering. “In order to utilize fully
our capabilities for productive re-
search," said Professor Martin, “we
must have graduate students iden-
tified primarily with the program
during the time period required for
the doctorate. Only with this much
time can a continuity of train-
ing and research experience be
achieved.”
The new program will provide
men with advanced training in a
field that is growing rapidly in im-
portance in virtually all fields of
industry, research and the nation’s
defense effort. Nuclear power and
propulsion plants are coming into
use for both civilian and military
applications. Uses for nuclear tech-
nology are being found in industry
and agriculture both as research
tools and as aids to testing and pro-
duction.
As these uses increase, the need
for trained nuclear engineers for
research, design and operations
threatens to remain far ahead of the
supply. According to Professor Mar-
tin, the establishment of the nuclear
engineering educational program at
the University of Illinois, planned
and developed over a period of
years, will help increase that sup-
ply.
Chavez Named Professor
at Syracuse University
Edward Chavez, painter and sculp-
tor, has been named assistant pro-
fessor in the School of Architecture
at Syracuse University. He will teach
drawing in various media to fresh-
man and sophomore architecture
students. He will also teach ad-
vanced painting in the art school.
The artists background includes
teaching drawing and painting at
the Art Students League of New
York and in the School of Art of
Colorado College, advanced studies
in Italy through a Fulbright grant,
exhibitions at the Chicago Art In-
stitute, National Academy of De-
sign, Whitney Museum, Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, Carnegie Insti-
tute, San Francisco Museum of Art
and the University of Illinois.
more news on page 304
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Give your homes
more sell -power
with radiant
hydronic heating
NEW and budget-priced!
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Your customers want "Automatic
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heating with a Basmor Boiler, uni-
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temperature control. No drafts or
hot spots!
Luxury heat at small cost. With the
new Basmor 100 Series small and
medium size homes can now afford
the finest. Deluxe extended jacket
and flush jacket models, factory as-
sembled. Both available "packaged"
with circulator, full wiring and com-
plete assembly, ready for instant
installation. Three sizes, 70,000 to
120,000 BTU input/hr. for ‘all hot
water systems.
Modern, compact—fits in anywhere.
Less than a yard high. Beautiful tur-
quoise and desert sand baked
enamel finish. New tubular design
cast iron sections and finest con-
trols insure top efficiency. AGA ap-
proved for installation on combusti-
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Graceful, modern architectural design, plus the beauty
of smooth, unglazed, buff-colored Natco face brick
sets this new downtown Boston parking garage apart
as one of the finest in the country.
Apart from being simply a functional structure ca-
pable of handling 734 automobiles, this 12-level garage
makes an aesthetic, architecturally pleasing contribu-
tion to the City of Boston’s redevelopment program.
Clear ceramic glazed Vitritile, also made by Natco,
was used to face interior walls in the garage office,
wash rooms, attendants’ quarters and warming rooms
for elevator operators. Low maintenance costs result
since this structural facing tile requires only a periodic
wiping to retain a clean, cool, new appearance. E ==
The architect, Mr. S. S. Eisenberg, referring to the new parking garage stated, “We
tried to provide modern design with the best materials available."
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 301
Free Standing Model W11D
Available in 8, 11, 15, 20 gallon capacities.
NEW WESTINGHOUSE
Flush-to-wall units end unsightly plumbing, are easier, less
expensive to install, take up to 30% less space.
Westinghouse presents the complete line of water coolers
designed specifically for today’s modern-living buildings.
New WALL LINE coolers eliminate old-fashioned, unsightly
plumbing that collects dirt, dust, and trash. They are clean
looking and completely functional . . . all plumbing is neatly
concealed inside. Takes up to 30% less space... opens up
corridors and passageways. New slip connections make
installation and maintenance faster and easier. There are
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Westinghouse WALL LINE models for installation on-the-
floor and off-the-floor . . . and "'Bilt-In" models that fit right
into the wall. You can be sure... if it's Westinghouse.
See the 1961 Sweet's Catalog Service for complete specifi-
cations on Westinghouse Water Coolers described in Archi-
tectural File and Industrial Construction File . . . 21 model
selection . . . or call the Westinghouse Water Cooler Distrib-
utor listed under ''Water Coolers" in the Yellow Pages.
Better yet, mail this coupon right now for your personal copy
of the 1961 Westinghouse А.1.А. Catalog.
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Wall-Hung Model WL11D + Free Standing “Junior” Model WL7D Bilt-In
Available in 8 and 11 gallon capacities. Available in 8 and 11 gallon capacities. Available in 5 Bud 10 gallon capacities.
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WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Water Cooler Dept., 300 Phillippi Road
Columbus 16, Ohio
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The Record Reports
continued from page 300
Graduate Program Reactivated
at Syracuse University
Plans have been announced to reac-
tivate a graduate program in city
and regional planning, leading to
the degree of Master in Architec-
ture, at Syracuse University’s School
of Architecture.
In charge of the program is asso-
ciate professor Peter B. Andrews,
who was named to the Syracuse fac-
ulty in September. Professor An-
drews earned his A.B. degree from
Williams and his Bachelor of Archi-
tecture and Master of Regional Plan-
ning degrees at Cornell University.
He has been working on community
and regional planning projects
since 1957. He was project manager
for the design of the soon-to-be-
built Memphis Civic Center.
The graduate city and regional
planning program will include
courses given by the Maxwell Grad-
uate School of Citizenship and Public
| Affairs and the colleges of Business
Administration, Law and Engineer-
ing.
Professor Andrews said that can-
didates for the master's degree are
required to pass 30 credit hours, of
| which at least 10 are to be taken in
the School of Architecture, at least
12 in other graduate divisions of
the university. Students may elect
to submit a thesis or may elect to
all requirements through
course studies and research. Pro-
grams will be arranged for each in-
dividual to meet his needs and ob-
jectives, giving attention to balance
and relationships of subjects and
the value of the whole program.
Among new courses being offered
are architectural design, physical
planning, architectural construc-
tion, research work and a seminar.
Faculty Additions
at Columbia University
New additions to the faculty of
Columbia University's School of Ar-
chitecture are: Edward J. Romien-
iec in Design; Samuel G. Wiener in
Visual Communication; Sigurd
Grava in Planning; and Henry
Wright in Environmental Control.
more news on page 312
THE
TEMPLATE
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by Leopold
The Template Group combines
the high-styling and individuality of
fine custom-built wood office
furniture with moderate cost and
durability to make it a
practical choice for all offices.
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First with these major contributions
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absorbs the vibration of 20° cooler, increase bal- from excessive tempera-
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becomes sound. end-of-life hazards.
Through continuing development by the Research and
Engineering Divisions, Advance Transformer Co. offers
the lighting industry an innovation in Fluorescent Lamp Bal-
last Design. A design incorporating the principle of Unitized
Ballast Construction ... ballast housing, core and coil, capacitor
and the new Advance "SOLID-FIL" development combine to
offer Drip-Free Unitized Construction. This exclusive Advance develop-
ment differs from other types of solid fill materials in that it retains a DRIP FREE
pliable consistency, and will not become brittle with age or heat, permit- a
ting retention of its excellent thermal and sound deadening characteristics. QUIETER
Accelerated heat tests, far above what will be experienced in an actual
lighting installation, proved conclusively no deterioration or drippage
of the Advance ‘’SOLID-FIL’’ development. MORE EFFICIENT
Advance Improved "SOLID-FIL" Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts dissipate heat HEAT DISSIPATION
faster, provide greater safety, and offer the lighting industry the oppor-
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greatest advance yet
in air-handling troffers
LIGHTSHEATSCOOLS
with air capacity range never before kernel
(NOW 0-200 CFM)
1. Completely isolated
air chamber |
2. Fiberglas insulation
3. Insulating air space
Fast installing swivel-bar
hanger cuts labor time to a
minimum. No overhead
yokes needed.
Exclusive new feature
permits entry of light into air
slots. No dark shadowed
slots or unsightly trim.
gas
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` the world's largest single source of lighting for
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Announcing ... another big break-through by Benjamin
engineering and research .. . a high capacity air-handling
troffer that isolates lighting from air flow so effectively
that temperature variations cannot affect light output in
any way. High lamp efficiency and color is maintained
even under the most demanding air handling require-
ments. And...it's all done by means of the amazing
new TRIPLE-SHELL construction that completely sepa-
rates air passages from troffer housing with fiberglas and
insulating air spaces.
*Entirely new air diffusing dampers assure super-quiet
operation. Air capacities now range from 0 to 200 сїт
from a single 1 x 4 or 2 x 4 foot unit.
A new look in trim design features new shallow 474"
troffer housing which embodies many distinctive features
APACITY RANGE
Complete range from 0 to 200 cfm
available in 3 capacities.
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for faster installation and easier maintenance not found
on competitive models. TRIPLE-SHELL Lumi-Flo troffers
are available for use with all basic ceiling systems .. . іп
a wide selection of louvered, glass or plastic closures.
Benjamin, the manufacturer of over 90% of all air-handling
troffers now in service, is continually researching new
improvements. Its extensive research and development
facilities have recently been expanded to include a
modern air test laboratory where air and lighting designs
can be verified under actual job conditions.
\ Air diffusing dampers have been developed еѕре-
cially for Lumi-Flo by TUTTLE & BAILEY,
foremost design engineers and manufacturers of
air distribution equipment.
THOMAS INDUSTRIES INC.
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Clemson Schedules
Eleven Visiting Experts
Through the Clemson Architectural
Foundation, Clemson College School
of Architecture has scheduled 11
visiting lecturers and critics for
this semester. They are: Moreland
Smith, hospital architect, Montgom-
ery, Ala.; Dr. Thomas Howarth, for-
mer professor of architecture, Uni-
versity of Manchester, England,
now director of the University of
Toronto School of Architecture;
Martin Stephen Kermacy, professor
of architecture at the University of
Texas; Professor Lawrence Ander-
son, head of the department of ar-
chitecture, School of Architecture
and Planning at M.LT.; George
Rockrise, practicing architect;
Brian Shorecroft, visiting instructor
from England, now teaching at
North Carolina State College; James
Souder, hospital architect; Samuel
Sabean, professor of sculpture at
Soe bob eS EOS.
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Cement-asbestos formed
into stone hard panels by
hydraulic pressure.
Rust-proofed steel perma-
nently laminated for shock-
proof permanence.
Litegreen magnetic face of
built-up slating coats for
life-long service.
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CHALKBOARD
ptuother Beckley-Cardy Original
STEELBESTOS® withstands every schoolroom test. Cement-asbestos back-
ing is permanently bonded to smooth, rust-proof steel surface to give
uniform, indestructible writing face . . . and it’s simple to install.
April 1961
ECONOMICAL
MAGNETIC
AT YOUR
DEALERS
—EVERYWHERE
1900 N. Narragansett
Chicago 39, Illinois
Pennsylvania State University;
Guilio Pizzetti, Italian architect on
tour of American universities; Miss
Katherine Pollack-Daniels, The
Hague, Holland, president of the
Dutch Society of Landscape Archi-
tects; and Garrett Eckbo, California
landscape architect.
A.S.C.E. Research Prizes
Awarded Five Educators
Five engineering educators have
been named recipients of the 1960
Research Prizes of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. The
prizes, awarded to members of the
Society for notable achievements in
research related to civil engineer-
ing, consist of cash awards and ap-
propriate certificates. They will be
formally presented at the A.S.C.E.
National Convention in Phoenix,
Arizona, April 10-14.
The 1960 winners are: Professor
David K. Todd, civil engineering de-
partment, University of California;
Professor Bruno Thurlimann, de-
partment of civil engineering, Swiss
Federal Institute of "Technology,
Zurich, Switzerland ; Professor Don-
ald R. F. Harleman, Hydrodynamics
Laboratory, M.I.T.; Professor Phil
M. Ferguson, department of civil
engineering, University of Texas;
and Professor Raymond Clough, de-
partment of civil engineering, Uni-
versity of California.
Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation
Awards Engineer Undergrads
The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding
Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has
announced the 13th annual awards
for engineering undergraduate pa-
pers on welded machine and struc-
tural design. A total of $5000 in 46
awards were made to engineering
undergraduates in 21 different en-
gineering colleges. Awards were
made for papers explaining how the
efficient application of welded steel
to the design of a machine or struc-
ture contributed to its improvement
or cost reduction.
The $1250 first award went to
Glenn F. Balfanz Jr., Cicero, Ill.,
for his paper, submitted from the
Department of Mechanical Engi-
neering, Northwestern University,
on the redesign of a pump dis-
continued on page 316
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BI-PARTING DUMBWAITER DOOR
CAR 1”. CLEARANCE
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OPENING HEIGHT
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Doors. He is always
ready to give you
personal service
and expert advice
on your dumbwaiter
door problems.
For prompt action,
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Safety seal astragal— prevents finger injuries
Side latching— panels always latched together
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Adjustable guide shoes
New vision panel locks on shaft side with a
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Equipped with the new Peelle, positive, fool-
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961 309
another first from
the leader in air
distribution product design
VARIABLE VOLUME REHEAT is a part of an air conditioning system that supplies varying
quantities of air at a constant low temperature to satisfy the changing cooling load and
provides reheat for a minimum quantity of air during heating.
THE NEW TITUS VARIABLE VOLUME REHEAT UNIT
PROVIDES MORE EFFICIENT PERIMETER AIR CON-
DITIONING, GREATER OVERALL ECONOMY—MORE
FLEXIBILITY IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
310
This new unit assures the utmost in complete and continuous con-
trol of individual space temperatures and ventilation the year
around. Each unit can respond to a wide range of heating and cool-
ing demand — WITH AMAZING EFFICIENCY AND
ECONOMY. Can be used with low or high pressure systems.
LOWER INITIAL EQUIPMENT COSTS... As an example, fan capacity
can be much less when Titus Variable Volume Reheat units are
used. Due to solar orientation, all perimeter areas do not require
maximum cooling or maximum flow at the same time. With
variable volume it is then possible to design the fan capacity by
the cooling air flow required at a specified time, rather than the
total of the maximum flow required at each outlet in the perimeter
area as would be the case with a constant air flow system.
LOWER OPERATING COSTS... Operating costs are greatly
reduced during heating because only about 14 of the maximum
flow need be supplied with Titus Variable Volume Reheat units.
ADDITIONAL SAVINGS on heating equipment and fuel costs are
realized from the low air flow since A MINIMUM OF. COOL
PRIMARY AIR Is REHEATED. Operating costs during cooling are
less, too, because unit supplies varying quantities of cooled air
to satisfy changing cooling load.
GREATER DESIGN FREEDOM FOR ARCHITECT . . . When conven-
tional units such as convectors, mixing boxes, etc., are used in
perimeter air conditioning, they often cause unsightly, cluttered
walls. The new Titus Variable Volume Reheat units can be
installed under the floor with the outlet flush with the floor . . .
or above the floor at any height desired.
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD April 1961
Reheat Damper P
Entrance
Rekeat Coil
REHEAT AND MINIMUM FLOW
THROUGH TITUS VVR UNIT
When heating is required, a
damper shuts off about three-
fourths of air flow through unit
allowing minimum flow of cool
air to pass through unit and be
heated by finned tube. When re-
duced heating is called for, flow
of hot water is gradually shut off
until no heating of air takes
place. Now unit very efficiently
provides minimum cooling with
same flow rate as before.
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When thermostat calls for more
cooling, pneumatic motor begins
opening by-pass damper and
more air is then allowed to flow
through unit until damper is full
open and maximum flow and full
cooling is reached. (Maximum
flow is approx. 4 times greater
than minimum flow). UNIFORM
AIR DISTRIBUTION is possible
with Variable Volume Reheat
unit because the division of air
fiow through the grille provides a
constant velocity leaving the grille.
Variable Volume Reheat
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The panel dimensions of PELLA WOOD FOLDING PARTITIONS integrate
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opening width and heights up to 20’ 1", these heavy-duty partitions also add
the textural warmth of natural wood to commercial, religious and institutional
interiors. Specify factory-finished or for finishing on the job. Stable core panel
diated with water-resist- | construction prevents warpage. With Pella's patented “live-action” steel spring hing-
ant plastic glue and ing system, the partition requires only about LIB. pressure per panel to operate (regard-
faced wih wood veneer less of height). For large area space division, try working with PELLA wooD FOLDING
PARTITIONS. Consult your classified telephone directory for nearest U.S. or Canadian PELLA
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The Record Reports
continued from page 308
charge head. The $1000 second
award was received by John R. Cor-
telyou, Los Angeles, who submitted
a paper as a student at California
State Polytechnic College on the re-
design of a foot bridge. Donald
Belz and Martin Skeer, of Glendale
and Brooklyn, N.Y., shared the $500
third award for their joint paper on
a marine salvage float. They sub-
mitted the paper as students in the
Civil Engineering Department of
the Cooper Union in New York.
The schools in which these stu-
dents enrolled received equal
amounts to use as scholarships in
the respective departments.
1961 A.S.C.E. Award Given
N.Y. International Airport
New York International Airport has
been selected by the American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers for its 1961
award as the Outstanding Civil En-
gineering Achievement of the Year.
Won by the St. Lawrence Seaway
and Power Project in 1960, the com-
petition drew 11 nominations this
year: Niagara Falls Power Develop-
ment; Portage Lake Bridge, linking
Houghton and Hancock, Mich.; In-
telex Post Office Building, Provi-
dence, R.I.; Pan American World
Airways Terminal at International
Airport; Chase Manhattan Bank,
New York City; Dresden Nuclear
Power Station, Chicago; Hyperion
Effluent Outfall, El Segundo, Calif. ;
Geysers Power Plant, Sonoma, Calif. ;
Lloyd Shopping Center, Portland,
Ore.; Grand Isle Sulphur Mine, Gulf
of Mexico; and New York Interna-
tional Airport.
Judging was made by a jury of
engineering magazine editors, its
decision ratified by the Society’s
Board of Direction. Three general
categories formed the basis of judg-
ing: engineering skill demonstrated ;
evident engineering progress; and
value of the project to mankind.
Most of the varied activities of
civil engineering were involved in
International Airport, including air
transport, city planning, construc-
tion, highway, irrigation and drain-
age, engineering mechanies, sanita-
tion, surveying, hydraulies, soil
mechanies and foundations and
continued on page 324
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Today’s young Americans are learning
to talk and think in “native” Chinese
(or ANY foreign language)
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a few years ago — thanks to the
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The Record Reports
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structural. Started about 20 years
ago, New York International became
eligible for this year's award be-
cause it was deemed 75 per cent
operational, in accordance with the
rules of the competition. Work is
still proceeding to complete the
present construction program.
The jury decided that the civil
engineering involved in New York
International (which covers an area
of 4900 acres) is of a magnitude un-
precedented in the history of air-
port planning, design and construc-
tion. Designed to handle nearly all
of the New York metropolitan area's
international air traffic, half of its
domestic long-haul traffic and one-
quarter of its domestic short-and-
medium air traffic, the airport is the
center for the operation of 38 air-
lines (16 American and 22 foreign) ;
its Terminal City has a total of ten
terminals. The runway and taxiway
system now includes five runways
and 20 miles of taxiways.
By the end of 1960, a total of $288
million had been spent on its con-
struction by New York Port Authori-
ty.
The A.S.C.E. award will be pre-
sented this spring to the Port of
New York Authority, which devel-
oped and operates the airport under
a lease with the city of New York.
Memphis Chapter, A.I.A.
Honors Walter P. Armstrong Jr.
The Memphis Chapter of the Amer-
ican Institute of Architects has pre-
sented its first Distinguished Serv-
ice Award to Walter P. Armstrong
Jr., president of the Memphis Board
of Education.
Robert Day Smith, Chapter presi-
dent, presented the citation to Mr.
Armstrong for his contributions to
the general welfare and civic good
of Memphis and his service on the
Board of Education.
Having received his award, Mr.
Armstrong replied with a citation
to the Memphis chapter: “То the
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. who in a decade have changed
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to know and a strong disposition to believe.
That’s what happens in Architectural Record.
The Record’s own architect and engineer subscribers (veri-
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building!) rate it first in its field for accuracy and for concen-
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And in 148 out of 163 studies sponsored by building product
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By timing and balancing editorial content with the aid of
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terms of the work on their boards.
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the Record’s own Continuing Readership Research.
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as well as presently important, developments in building design.
By everlastingly speaking the language of the professional archi-
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architecture’s most perceptive and stimulating photographs.
The Record Builds Confidence Among Advertisers, too!
In 1960 they placed 62 per cent more advertising pages in
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Index to Advertising
PRE-FILED CATALOGS of the
manufacturers listed below are
available in the 1961 Sweet’s Catalog
File as follows: (A) Architectural
File (green), (IC) Industrial Con-
struction File (blue), (LC) Light-
Construction File (yellow).
A-IC Adam Electric Co., Frank .... 281
Advance Transformer Co. .... 305
Aerofin Corporation ..... аған 1248
Air Devices, Inc. ............. 814
All-Steel Equipment, Tne. E 55
A-IC Altec Lansing Corporation .... 82
A-IC-LC Alsynite Company of America,
Reichold Chemical Division .. 250-251
A-IC Aluminum Company of
America ............ 220004 229, 241
IC American Air Filter Co., Inc. 114-115
American Bridge Division .... 38-39
American Gas Association .... 99-100
American Institute of Archi-
teats, The xeste sa aS. ls
A American Laundry Machinery
Таас ен: a cnciaenismseraeinsmin, ШЙ
American Institute of Steel Con-
[iw (sb) э...» amano ‚эээ rm 336
A-IC American-Marietta Company 201, 244
A American Olean Tile Company . 59
A-LC American Sisalkraft Company . 249
A American Sterilizer ........... 77
A-LC American Telephone апа Tele-
graph Company ............. . 109
Amsterdam Corporation .....
A-LC Anaconda American Brass Co. . 11
A Anemostat Corporation of
FACTOR), „„ за.» since aie sus ABB
Architectural Record ....... 326-327
A-IC-LC Arkla Air Conditioning Corp. 99-100
A-IC-LC Armstrong Cork Company .... 42-43
Arvin Industries, Inc. ........ 328
Autocall Company, The ........ 264
A-LC Azrock Floor Products Div. .. 320-321
A Bally Case and Cooler, Inc. .... 296
A-IC Barber-Colman Company ... 286-287
A-IC-LC Barrett Div., Allied Chemical
Gölü: азаа вео TIUS T EB ДОД
Bastian-Morley Company, Ine. . 300
A-IC Bayley Co., The William ..... x 272
A Beckley-Cardy Co. ...... . 808
A-LC Bell Telephone System ........ 109
A Benjamin Division, Thomas In-
dustries, Inc. ...... —— € . 806-307
A Berlin Chapman Co. .......... 284
A-IC-LC Bestwall Gypsum Company .... 232
A-IC Bethlehem Steel Company .... 32, 76
Bigelow Sanford ...... ЭРГҮҮ Ж...
A-LC Bird апа Son, Ine. ......... scs ADT
A-LC Birge Company, Inc., The .... 82
A. Blakeslee & Company, G. S. .... 240
Blickman, Inc., S. л
Boeckh, Е. Н. & Associates .... 328
A Bogen-Presto, Div. of the Siegler
оа „ъз эзе ram Seuls seus 80
A-IC Borden Metal Produets Co. .... 27
A-IC Bradley Washfountain Co. ..... 41
A-LC Bruce Co. Е. І. ............ 125
A-IC-LC Carey Mfg. Co., The Phillip . 118-119
Carpenter & Company, L. E. .. 21
A-IC-LC Carrier Air Conditioning Co. ... 265
A-IC Caterpillar Tractor Co. ........ 260
XX. Сара Cari. xus коеаиананаа 318
Certified Ballast Manufacturers 93
Colorizer Associates .......... . 118
Committee of Steel Pipe Produc-
E sade EGERÊ AR Kê . 294-5
A-IC Concrete Reinforcing Steel In-
ПНЕ. мик AO OE ERR 48
Corbin Division, P. & F. ...... 69
A-LC Cupples Products Corporation . 30-31
Curtis-Allbrite Lighting,
IG вену aea Е 209 to 211
Da-Lite Screen Co., Inc. ....... 292
A-IC Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. .... 2-3
A-LC Devoe & Raynolds Co., Inc. .... 60
Doüge Books гг ашан 332
A-LC Donley Brothers Co., The ...... 104
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A-IC-LC
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A-LC
A-IC
A
A-IC-LC
A-IC
A-IC-LC
A-LC
A-IC
A-IC
A-IC
A-IC-LC
A-IC-LC
A-IC
A
A-LC
Dover Corporation ............ 22
Dow Chemical Company, The 262-263
Du Pont de Nemours & Co.,
REE sixes ар СО 19, 83, 239
Eagle Electric Mfg. Со., Inc. ... 316
Elkirt Corporation ............ 82
Endicott Church Furniture .... 242
Farley & Loetscher Mfg.
О «=»: баек: а EIER 2nd Cover
Fiat Metal Manufacturing Co. 84-85
Flynn Mfg. Co., Michael .... 122-123
Follansbee Steel Corp. ....... . 245
General Electric Company 112, 216-217
General Fireproofing Co., The 117
General Time Corp., Stromberg
Division. гоа как юнә» Fo er 275
Geneva Modern Kitchens ...... 62
Georgia Granite Company .... 297
Goodrich Chemical Co., В. F. .. 116
Gridwall Company ............ 80-81
Grifün Mfg. Company ........ 230
Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Co. 243
Guth Company, The Edwin F. .. 226
Hager & Sons Hinge Mfg. Co.,
[oC PIE TTE UTI 235
Hanley Company ............. 45
Haughton Elevator Company .. 86
Haws Drinking Faucet Co. ..... 268
Hexcel Products, Inc. .......... 269
Heywood-Wakefield Company .. 28
Hillyard Chemical Co. ..... ... 220
Hobart Manufacturing Company 29
Holcomb and Hoke Mfg. Co., Inc. 238
Holopane Company, Ine. ...... 261
Homasote Company ....... э 98
Horn Companies, A. C. ........ 288
Hotel Pittsburgher ............ 296
Huntington Laboratories, Inc. 293
Hunter Douglas Div., Bridgeport
Brass бо. eee — RR 55 285
Inland Stee! Company ........ 56-57
Inland Steel Products Co. 70-71, 215
Insulrock Div., Flintkote Co. 110-111
International Nickel Company
та нат ж «х=». конлек reais E8 106
Jamison Cold Storage Door Со. 274
Janitrol Heating and Air Con-
ОНОЙ: сериен . 107-108
Jenn-Air Products Со., Inc. .. 280
Johns-Manville .......... 78-79, 248
Josam Manufacturing Co. .... 25
Keasbey and Mattison Co. ..... 214
КЕПШ; TH. qo-ve$ ves) tema 51
Kinnear Mfg. Co., The ........ 222
Klemp International .......... 281
Kohler Co. ...... menie soU SR 12
Roppers б; cit ates ааай» aê 282-283
Koppers Company, Inc., Chemi-
cals and Dyestuffs Division .... 87
Koppers Co., Inc., Metal Prod-
ducts: DIS. sege ee nisu ndn 211
Laclede Steel Co. .............. 52
LCN Closers, Inc. .......... 218-219
Leopold Company, The ........ 304
Leviton Manufacturing Co. .... 252
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co. 236-237
Linen Supply Association of
P vef. PT 120
Lone Star Cement Corp. ....... i
Loren Cook Co., The .......... 288
Ludowici-Celadon Company .... 289
Macomber, Ine. 291
Marlo Coil Co. 40
Marmet Corporation .......... 61
Marsh Wall Products, Ine. .... 94
Mastic Tile Division ........ 258-259
Metropolitan Wire Goods Corp. 256
Mills Company, The ........... 127
Miscermme HE sansa snare oxo 73
Moe Light Div., Thomas Indus-
fries, WES so223)£4xv 24A ez 325
Monsanto Chemical Company,
Plastics DIVISION: п... неа 121
Montgomery Elevator Co. ..... 54
Mo-Sai Institute, Ine. .......... 290
Mueller Brass Co. ............ 22
NEW YORK—James E. Boddorf, Sales Mgr.; Tom Tredwell, Advertisin а Mgr.; Blake Hughes,
Mgr.; Benton B. Orwig, Director of New Business Development; Joseph R. Wunk, Advertising Production Mgr.; Harry M. Horn, Jr., Michael J.
Davin, 119 W. 40 St.; BOSTON—Harry M. Horn, Jr., 355 Park Square Bldg.; BUFFALO—Benton B. Orwig, 310 Delaware Ave.; CHICAGO—
Robert T. Franden, David К. Bortz, James A. Anderson, Douglas S. Brodie, 919 N. Michigan Ave.; CLEVELAND—John C. Jackson, Regional
Mgr.; Joseph F. Palmer, Louis F. Kutscher, $21 Hanna Bldg.; LOS ANGELES—Wettstein, Nowell & Johnson, Inc., 672 S. Lafayette Park Pl;
MIAMI—Benton B. Orwig, 802 N. W. First St.; PHILADELPHIA—Tom Tredwell, Harry M. Horn, Jr., Broad & Locust Streets; PITTSBURGH
—John C. Jackson, 411 Seventh Ave.; PORTLAND—Wettstein, Nowell & Johnson, Inc., 1921 S. W. Washington St.; ST. LOUIS—Robert T.
Franden, John I. Howell, 3842 W. Pine Blvd.; SAN FRANCISCO—Wetistein, Nowell & Johnson, Inc.; 417 Market St.
A-IC
A-IC-LC
A-IC-LC
A-IC-LC
A-IC
A-IC
A-IC
A-IC-LC
Multi Electric Mfg., Inc. ...... 335
Natco Corporation .......... v» 807
National Concrete Masonry As-
воеїайоп ............... жжке 24
National Gypsum Co. даукес 228
Nationa! Lumber Manufacturers
КОС „жж X EENT E ..... 266-267
National System of Garage
Wentilation,, Ine. 22-0 rentis 324
National Tube Division .... 102-103
Navaco Company ......... vee 53
Neo-Ray Products, Inc. ........ 1B
New Castle Products, Inc. .. 33 to 36
Norman Products, Co. ........ 202
Nutone, Inc. ..5.... nen „+... 1-1А
Overly Manufacturing Company 96-97
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
СОЕ Gis cuir эзи» in iri ciara rri .. 270-271
Owens-Illinois .............- s Um
Peelle Company, The .......... 309
Pittsburgh Corning Corp. ... 298-299
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 278-279, 833
A-IC-LC Portland Cement Association 225, 313
A Pratt & Lambert, Ine. ........ 314
A-LC Precision Parts Corp. ....... . 240
A Products Research Co. ........ 296
Radiant Lamp Corp. ........ v 57
Rheem Califone Corp. ...... ose 918
A-IC-LC Rileo Engineered Wood Products
Div., Weyerhaeuser Co. ........ 278
A-LC Rock Island Millwork Co. ...... 101
A-LC Roddis Div., Weyerhaeuser Co. . 46-47
A Rohm & Haas Company ...... . 283
A-LC Rolscreen Со. ........ 315, 317, 319
Russell and Erwin Division 3rd Cover
A-IC Ryerson Inc., Joseph T. & Son 254-255
A Sargent & Greenleaf ......... . 882
A Sedgwick Machine Works ..... 276
A-IC Sheffield Division .......... ... 90-91
A SMOD OU. онаи резо . 74
Sinko Manufacturing & Tool Co. 49
A-IC Sloan Valve Company ... 4th Cover
A Smith Corporation, A. O. ...... 224
A-IC Smith & Co., Inc.,
IB inr OD a scere meses 221, 288, 318
A Southern Equipment Co. ...... 304
Square D Company ........... 228
Sta-Crete, Ine. .......... .. 800, 324
A-IC Standard Conveyor Company .. 200
A-IC Stark Ceramics, Inc. .......... 213
A St. Charles Mfg. Co. ...... 68, 323
Stephens-Adamson Mfg. Co. .. 8
A Stromberg Div., General Time
т. Жее. ЖШ E КЫ е мае амаа 215
Structural Clay Products Inst. . 105
A Sunbeam Lighting Co. ........ 329
A-IC Sun Chemical Corporation .... 288
Sweet's Catalog Service .... 312, 835
A Sylvania Lighting Products .... 58
Talk-a-Phone Co. ............. 240
A T & S Brass and Bronze Works,
ШЕ И келади кебери, .. 224
A Timber Structures, Inc. ....... 247
A "Titus Mfg. Corp. ...-. es 310-311
AX; "lorgasenm, Jm. „ох sirena t moniti 44
A Txemco Mfg. Co. «екан 234
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. 65
A-LC Unit Structures, Inc. .... 48A to 48D
A-LC United States Plywood ........ 66-67
A-IC United States Steel Corp.
TERRE secta atii 38-39, 63, 102-103
A Universal Atlas Cement ...... 63
A-LC Uvalde Rock Asphalt Co. .... 320-321
A-IC Van Range Co., John .......... 246
Vogt Machine Company, Henry 224
A Vonnegut Hardware Co. ...... 126
A. Wasco Products, Ine. .... es 199
A Weil-MeLain Co., Inc. ........ 128
A-IC-LC Westinghouse Electric Corp. 302-303
A-LC Weyerhaeuser Company 46-47, 273, 322
A-IC Wheeling Corrugating Company 64-65
Yuba Consolidated Industries,
ЩЕРЕВ БИТЕ is 89
A-LC Zonolite Company ......... „.. 16-17
Marketing Mgr.; Richard Crabtree, Business
A-IC-LC
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